to pay for George W. Bush's Iraq War, he was a columnist for the New York Observer. Von Hoffman was fired by Don Hewitt for referring to President Richard Nixon, at the height of the Watergate scandal, as "the dead mouse on the kitchen floor of America, and the only question now is who's going to pick him up by his tail and throw him in the garbage." His collaborations, both literary and otherwise, with Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau are worth noting, in particular the 1976 book Tales From the Margaret Mead Taproom. In this book, he recounted his adventures in American Samoa with Trudeau and actress Elizabeth Ashley, as they and several others experienced life in the American territory, which Trudeau had lampooned in a series of Doonesbury strips involving Uncle Duke's adventures as the territory's appointed governor. He also wrote for the Architectural Digest. Von Hoffman died on February 1, 2018, and was survived by three sons: Alexander von Hoffman, a noted historian; Aristodemos, who works in intelligence; and Constantine, also a journalist. Works (partial list) The Multiversity: A Personal Report on What Happens to Today's Students at American Universities We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against Mississippi Notebook Two, Three, Many More Organized Crimes Citizen Cohn (1988) Capitalist Fools: Tales of American Business, from Carnegie to Forbes to the Milken Gang Hoax: Why Americans Are Suckered by White House Lies Geneva (play) Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky (Nation Books, July 2010) In popular culture In 1988, fictional presidential candidate Jack Tanner named von Hoffman as his pick for Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in Robert Altman's HBO series Tanner '88. References Further reading External links C-SPAN Q&A interview with von Hoffman, September 12, 2010 Incomplete Collection of Nicholas von Hoffman commentaries on CBS Radio Spectrum, 1972–1973 Nicholas von Hoffman, Post Reporter and Columnist with a Literary Flair, dies at 88 1929 births 2018 deaths American male journalists Journalists from New York City American columnists American people of German-Russian descent American opera librettists Writers from New York City The New York Observer people Chicago Daily News people The Washington Post journalists 60 Minutes correspondents HuffPost writers and columnists 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American male writers