David Michael Hoffman is an American author, political commentator, television project director and media activist.
His maternal grandparents immigrated from Odessa, Ukraine in 1905 and his maternal grandparents immigrated from Poland also in the early 1900s. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up there. He graduated from City College High School in Baltimore in 1962, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1966 and did his graduate studies in the social and political history of the United States at the University of Colorado, writing a doctoral dissertation on A History of Revolutionary Thought in America 18771919. Hoffman played lacrosse and basketball for City College and Johns Hopkins.
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