Early in the Great Depression, graduate student Allan Archibald's research into organized crime in Chicago involves him with the Capone gang, while his banker father becomes a dupe of an unscrupulous financial wizard

Organized Crimes

Von Hoffman, Nicholas

Literature & Fiction

Harper&Row

Ballantine Books

Based on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends, this biography offers a comprehensive portrait of Roy Cohn, his ideological passions, personal life, and patterns of power and money

Citizen Cohn

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

DOUBLEDAY

The author of Citizen Cohn exposes modern business evils, describing its strengths in its heyday, how Malcolm Forbes convinced the public that the good times would never end, and argues for a return to ethical business. Tour.

Capitalist Fools

Business & Money

Make-believe presidents: Illusions of power from McKinley to Carter

Pantheon Books

Bantam]

Left At The Post

Quadrangle Books

Tales from the Margaret Mead taproom

Sheed Ward

How is it that the majority of Americans believed the fabrications of the Bush administration in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq when people in other countries, even those who enlisted in "the coalition of the willing," didn't buy them? Something has happened here and nowhere else, argues provocateur and gadfly Nicholas von Hoffman. It is something that impels vast numbers of Americans to believe the unbelievable when served up by its war-loving government. Best-selling author von Hoffman reveals how the American people have been gulled into cheering for a gigantic hoax by the Bush administration. "It happened because America has manufactured its own reality. A dome has slipped over the country, turning the nation into a unique biosphere which causes Americans to see, hear, and interpret every event and each happenstance as no other people do. Poisoned by recycled, unrefreshed air, Americans think differently." Hoax is both an impassioned exploration of American propaganda and public opinion, and an urgent dissection of our culture and way of life.

Hoax: Why Americans are Suckered by White House Lies (Nation Books)

History

Americas

Nation Books

A Devil’s Dictionary of Business is a godsend to those looking for an incisive and entertaining overview of the business world, told from the perspective of the legendary Nicholas von Hoffman, the former Washington Post columnist and commentator for 60 Minutes. From the Abacus to Zukor, von Hoffman summarizes, details, bewails, and elucidates the business world from top to bottom, from the ancient world to the Enron world. This catty, chatty, sharp, funny, mean, informative, and engaging book is worthy of its antecedent, Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary, and is an ideal gift for your stockbroker, bank manager, loan shark, or that anticapitalist, Starbucks-bashing cousin of yours, all of whom will enjoy von Hoffman’s sardonic and dizzying tour of Mammon.

A Devil's Dictionary of Business: Monkey Business; High Finance and Low; Money, the Making, Losing, and Printing Thereof; Commerce, Trade; Clever Tricks; Tours de Force; Globalism and Globaloney

Economics

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