Nat Hentoff, Author . Da Capo $16.50 (322p) ISBN 978-0-306-81084-8
It becomes clear from this collection of his writings over the past 25 years that Hentoff—iconoclast, muckraker and critic par excellence—has been remarkably consistent in his beliefs. And these beliefs come down to an absolute...
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Nat Hentoff, Author . Seven Stories $18 (176p) ISBN 978-1-58322-621-6
Hentoff, a veteran defender of civil liberties, elaborates on the legal "steamroller" unleashed after September 11 that he contends is diminishing our civil rights. Thanks to the USA Patriot Act, Hentoff reports, the FBI has authority to...
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Nat Hentoff, Author Da Capo Press $18.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-306-81351-1
Few of today's music critics can recall chatting with jazz legends like Louis, Billie or Duke in their dressing rooms, and the rarity of hearing about those experiences may be the single greatest pleasure of reading a Hentoff column. The""jazz...
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Nat Hentoff, Author Delacorte Press $14.95 (126p) ISBN 978-0-385-29565-9
Most of this volume by the noted civil libertarian lives up to the promise of the title. These are the compelling, true stories of high school students who endure censure by adults they'd been taught to obey and the taunts of friends and peers who...
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Nat Hentoff, Author Alfred A. Knopf $15.95 (175p) ISBN 978-0-394-40744-9
There are well-etched scenes, amusing episodes and even some surprises in this evocative memoir of growing up Jewish in the Boston of the 1930s and '40s. From the moment he eats a salami sandwich on Yom Kippur in defiance of his Orthodox neighbors,...
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Nat Hentoff, Author HarperCollins $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-019010-1
According to Hentoff's (Speaking Freely, etc.) introduction, the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan once told the author, ""The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.... But you've got to tell them...
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Nat Hentoff, Author Faber & Faber $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-571-12951-5
In this evocative memoir, Hentoff, an author and columnist for the Village Voice, recounts his experience growing up Jewish in the Boston of the 1930s and '40s and the influences that shaped him. PW described the work as ""told with frankness and...
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Nat Hentoff, Author Scribner Book Company $0 (290p) ISBN 978-0-684-18944-4
When Hentoff, ``a stiff-necked Jewish atheist,'' and ``stubborn'' Cardinal O'Connor first met at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, they established a rapport that is reflected in this appealing and instructive biography. It is clear that both...
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Free Speech for Me--But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
Nat Hentoff, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (405p) ISBN 978-0-06-019006-4
Hentoff's guiding principle in this casebook is that the First Amendment's protection of free speech must be given to all, even to those whose views are repugnant. It is not only right-wingers who have censored free expression, he argues, but anti-po
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Nat Hentoff, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (220p) ISBN 978-0-06-019047-7
Hentoff, music critic for the Wall Street Journal and author of numerous books on jazz and other subjects, has had a virtual lifelong love affair with jazz and country music. In these short pieces, many of which are reprinted from the Journal, he...
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Nat Hentoff, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-679-43647-8
Continuing from Boston Boy, this is less the classic memoir of introspection and revelation than a reporter's notebook fleshed out for posterity. Fortunately, Hentoff's passions--jazz, civil liberties, his pro-life stance--generate some good stories,
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