Citizen Cohn
by Nicholas Von Hoffman
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Author: Nicholas Von HoffmanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1988-03-01
ISBN: 0385236905
Number of pages: 16
Publisher: Doubleday
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Summary: 3 Stars
Nicholas von Hoffman is a brilliant columnist who, if this book is any indication, should stick to shorter-format works. CITIZEN COHN is fact-packed, and has some well-drawn anecdotes, but overall it is an unwieldy and disorganized tome. Von Hoffman jumps forward and back in time, in an almost stream-of-consciousness style, which bogs down the narrative and muddies the chronology of events he recounts. In the space of one paragraph, he darts from 1954 to 1980-something and then back to 1964, bringing in a parallel but unrelated incident involving entirely different players.
If you have a lot of time on your hands, and access to a high-speed internet connection to provide additional context for his stories, this great lump of a book can help kill a few hours here and there, but to someone who admires von Hoffman's usual style, it was a serious disappointment.
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