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Nat Hentoff

Born

in Boston, Massachusetts

June 10, 1925

Died

January 07, 2017

Genre

History, Music, Memoir

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Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff was a historian, novelist, music critic, and syndicated columnist. As a civil libertarian and free-speech activist, he has been described by the Cato Institute—where he has been a senior fellow since 2009—as "one of the foremost authorities on the First Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution. He was a staff writer for The New Yorker for over 25 years, and was formerly a columnist for The Village Voice for over 50 years, in addition to Legal Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and The Progressive, among others. Since 2014, he has been a regular contributor to the conservative Christian website WorldNetDaily, often in collaboration with his son Nick Hentoff.

Hentoff was a Fulbright Fellow at the Sorbonne ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 2,068 ratings · 283 reviews · 120 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Day They Came to Arrest the Book 3.37 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 1982 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free Speech for Me—But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other 4.02 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions 3.82 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jazz Is 4.24 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1976 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jazz Country 3.82 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1965 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jazz Life 3.98 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1961 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This School Is Driving Me Crazy 3.56 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1975 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War on the Bill of Rights—and the Gathering Resistance 3.50 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Listen to the Stories: On Jazz and Country Music 3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene by Nat Hentoff, Lewis Porter (Foreword) 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Whenever I see that kind of story, where everybody agrees, I know there's something wrong.”
― Nat Hentoff

tags: 1989, populism, washinton-times

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“Most of us lead or are led by lives of patterned regularity. Diurnally, surprises are relatively few. And except for economic or physical uncertainties, we neither face nor court significant degrees of risk because a fundamental drive in the vast majority of us is toward the attainment of as much security as is possible.
In this sense, jazzmen, of all musicians, are our surrogates for the unpredictable, our paladins of constant change.”
― Nat Hentoff, Jazz Is

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“We are talking about preventing our students from reading Huckleberry Finn! And why? Because it offends some people. Show me a book that offends no one, and i will show you a book that no one, in the whole history of the world, has ever willingly read.”
― Nat Hentoff, The Day They Came to Arrest the Book

tags: freedom-of-the-press, reading

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What frequently challenged or banned book (or book about censorship) for children and/or young adults should we read in January and February 2015?

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

30 votes, 29.7%

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff

28 votes, 27.7%

Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan

19 votes, 18.8%

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

17 votes, 16.8%

The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher

7 votes, 6.9%

101 total votes

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