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CAPITALIST FOOLS
HOFFMAN, NICHOLAS VON
1992 10016663 Common though antibusiness books have become, there's notable wit in this rip-up of American capitalists. Von Hoffman's ( Citizen Cohn ) laceration of J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Frick, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk et al. (who at least "did something") and latter-day money-combs such as James Robinson, Robert Campeau, Henry Kravis, Carl Icahn and Michael Milken reads like the monologue of a standup comic. Taking the story of business publisher B. C. Forbes and his bon vivant son Malcolm as a jumping-off point, von Hoffman heat-strips 100 years of big-bucks, behind-the-scenes corporate capers undertaken at the expense of stockholders, labor, taxpayers and consumers. Among the juicy bits: National Cash Register Co. founder John Patterson fired executives who had the wrong phrenological bumps; turn-of-the-century steel magnate Charles Schwab built himself a 90-bedroom Hudson River mansion; and top-level corporate hiring once routinely amounted to "affirmative action for a white upper-class male." Von Hoffman prescribes an Rx for errant big-business persons, but doesn't suggest how to make them swallow it. By interweaving anecdotes and biographical sketches of Malcolm Forbes and his father B.C. Forbes with those of business titans who were their contemporaries, von Hoffman blends solid historical research with social criticism. Readers looking for dirt on the Forbes family will be disappointed, as the author's intent was to write not about Malcolm Forbes and his times but "the reverse, his times and Malcolm Forbes." Von Hoffman argues that the captains of industry during B.C. Forbes's era--the Andrew Carnegies, the Charles M. Schwabs, and the Sam Insulls--were the true builders of America and made lasting contributions to their country. But when he examines Malcolm Forbes's contemporaries (the William Zeckendorfs, the Michael Milkens, and the Henry Kravises), he finds that, although they have amassed billions from American businesses, they have not built businesses--something Von Hoffman finds not only regrettable but disastrous. Although there is no index, the informative bibliographic endnotes make this book a wise choice for inclusion in the business history collections of academic and public libraries. Doubleday 0-385-41674-1 / 9780385416740
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Citizen Cohn
HOFFMAN, NICHOLAS VON
1988 10014101 Roy Cohn was not so much a lawyer as an operator. All his life, he preferred manipulating connections with the rich and powerful to playing by the rules diligently. von Hoffman's biography is a fuller and more damning account than Sidney Zion's The Autobiography of Roy Cohn (but it is fair; the extensive testimony from friends and foes alike make this almost an oral history. The chapter on Cohn's Washington years as counsel to Senator Joe McCarthy seems curiously out of focus, but the narrative quickly picks up steam as it details the indictments by Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department, the glory years as New York power broker, and finally disbarment and death from AIDS. This fascinating story of a figure at once brilliant and outrageous is highly recommended for public libraries. Doubleday 0-385-23690-5 / 9780385236904
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CITIZEN COHN (Biography of Roy M. Cohn)
Hoffman, Nicholas Von
1988 48120 Bibliography: p. 465-469. Includes index.. Biography about ROY M. Cohn and the McCarthy Hearings., Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good book jacket, . 6 x 9" Loathed by some, well respected by others, Roy Cohn was known as the toughest and msot brilliant lawyer in America. His unprecedented track record and his sensational and shocking behavior drew the rich and the powerful to him to solve their problems. His private life was more startling than the public one and Roy's name was constantly in the gossip columns. This is a remarkable and provacative biography that gives an extraordinary portrait of the man, his ideological passion, and the patterns of power and money that controlled his life. Doubleday Publishing 0-385-23690-5 / 9780385236904
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