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Von Hoffman never went to college; he worked in the Chicago Stock Yards and later served as a political organizer for the community activist Saul Alinsky ; Ben Bradlee , then the editor of the ''Post'', hired him from the '' Chicago Daily News ''. He was said to have been a brilliant reporter, and wrote an incendiary column for the paper's Style section. In her memoirs, Katharine Graham , then the newspaper's publisher, wrote of him: “My life would have been a lot simpler had Nicholas von Hoffman not appeared in the paper.” She added, however, that “I firmly believed that he belonged at the Post.” {Link without Title} In 1988, fake presidential candidate Jack Tanner named Hoffman as his pick for Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in Robert Altman 's HBO series Tanner '88 . Hoffman is the author of more than a dozen books, notably: ''Capitalist Fools: Tales of American Business, from Carnegie to Forbes to the Milken Gang'' (1992) and ''Citizen Cohn'' (1988), a biography of the late Roy Cohn , which was made into an HBO movie. His most recent title is ''Hoax: Why Americans Are Suckered by White House Lies'' (2004). Von Hoffman was in went into full out retreat and the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar fell. Columnist and blogger Andrew Sullivan created a parody ''Von Hoffman Award'' which he gives out for egregiously bad predictions. {Link without Title} Hoffman also wrote a libretto for Deborah Drattell 's '' Nicholas And Alexandra '' for the Los Angeles Opera which was performed in the 2003/04 season under the direction of Plácido Domingo . Currently he is a columnist for the '' New York Observer ''. Von Hoffman was fired by Don Hewitt for calling then President Richard Nixon the dead rat on America's kitchen floor. His collaborations, both literary and otherwise, with Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau are worth noting. He also writes for '' Architectural Digest ''. EXTERNAL LINKS
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