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Charles Nordhoff

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Charles Nordhoff , 1830–1901, American journalist and author, b. Westphalia. In 1835 he emigrated with his family to Cincinnati. His service (1844–47) in the navy, and later on whaling and fishing ships, provided literary material for his books Nine Years a Sailor (1857) and Stories of the Island World (1857). He wrote for the New York Evening Post (1858–71), part of the time as editor, and was Washington correspondent (1874–90) for the New York Herald. A leading political commentator of his day, Nordhoff was the author of such works as Communistic Societies in the United States (1875) and The Cotton States in the Spring and Summer of 1875 (1876). His grandson, Charles Bernard Nordhoff, 1887–1947, was coauthor with J. N. Hall of Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1933), Pitcairn's Island (1934), and other works.

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Nordhoff, Charles (1830–1901), Prussianborn journalist and author, whose earliest books are based on his youthful experiences as an American sailor. These are Man‐of‐War Life (1855), The Merchant Vessel (1855), Whaling and Fishing (1856), Stories of the Island World (1857), and a compilation of his first three books, Nine Years a Sailor (1857), edited by his grandson as In Yankee Windjammers (1940). He was an editor of the New York Evening Post (1861–71) and Washington correspondent of the New York Herald (1874–90). His newspaper assignments resulted in such books as Secession Is Rebellion (1860); America for Free Working Men (1865); Communistic Societies in the United States (1875), his most important contribution to social history; and The Cotton States (1876), an impartial political and economic investigation.

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