Left at the Post

by Nicholas von Hoffman

Book by Von Hoffman, Nicholas

219 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Nicholas von Hoffman was an American journalist and author. He first worked as a community organizer for Saul D. Alinsky in Chicago for ten years from 1953 to 1963. Later, Von Hoffman wrote for The Washington Post, and most notably, was a commentator on the CBS Point-Counterpoint segment for 60 Minutes, from which Don Hewitt fired him in 1974. von Hoffman was also a columnist for The Huffington Post.

Reviews

[Ernest Hogan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unabashily biased dispatches from political scene on the cusp from the Sixties into the Seventies. History upclose and personal.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Depressing to realize that the big national issues haven't changed since the late '60s, but Von Hoffman is a pleasure to read (not as funny as I remember him from radio, though -- he's not going for humor here). I was a little taken aback by his apparent sympathy for what wasn't yet called the human potential movement, and by his cheerleading for employee stock ownership plans. It's a shame that there don't seem to be any other collections of his columns from the Post, the NY Observer or anywhere else.