| The Nat Hentoff Reader Contributor(s): Hentoff, Nat (Author) |
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ISBN: 0306810840 ISBN-13: 9780306810848 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2001 Annotation: More than 20 years of Nat Hentoff's dazzling and provocative writings on jazz, politics, and American thought |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Literary Criticism | American - General - Political Science |
| Dewey: 818.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.94" W x 9.22" (1.11 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |