The Nat Hentoff Reader

From the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, and civil rights to jazz, blues and country music, Nat Hentoff has written about American life for decades, in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal, and JazzTimes, among countless other publications. The New York Times has hailed Hentoff's work as an invigorating and entertaining reminder of why freedom of expression matters. The Washington Post Book World has called Hentoff an old-fashioned music lover who likes, as Charlie Parker once put it, 'to listen to the stories' that good music tells. Nat Hentoff is a legend.And now, for the first time, here are his most important writings of the past twenty years -- the quintessential Hentoff on everything from Cardinal John O'Connor to Merle Haggard, racism and political correctness in the classroom to Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie to the censorship of Huckleberry Finn. Controversial? You bet. Whatever the topic, The Nat Hentoff Reader shows a man of passion and insight, of streetwise wit and polished eloquence-a true American original

Author: Nat Hentoff
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 10/17/2001
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.22h x 5.94w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780306810848

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/29/2001 pg. 49
Booklist 11/01/2001 pg. 456

About the Author
Nat Hentoff is the first Jazz critic every named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.