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First Amendment
After FarberNat Hentoff
The Illusions of the Press


American Music Is (2003)Nat Hentoff
1 Review

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Analyzing 'The Kick' (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Reluctant Art, by Benny Green
- The Reluctant Art by Benny Green


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Anxiety and Paranoia (Review) Nat Hentoff
Stern, by Bruce Jay Friedman
- Stern by Bruce Jay Friedman



First Amendment Watch
The Battle of 'Richmond.'Nat Hentoff
Last summer's 7-to-1 Supreme Court decision in favor of open courtrooms has been hailed...

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Bernard Malamud (Review) Nat Hentoff
Idiots First, by Bernard Malamud
- Idiots First by Bernard Malamud

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Bird Lives! (Review) Nat Hentoff
Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, by Robert George Reisner
- Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker by Robert George Reisner


Black Anti-Semitism and Jewish Racism (1970)Nat Hentoff
2 Reviews, 1 Readable


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Black Muslims (Review) Nat Hentoff
Black Nationalism, by E.U. Essien-Udom
- Black Nationalism by E.U. Essien-Udom

Blues for Charlie Darwin (1982)Nat Hentoff
1 Review

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Books (2 Reviews) Nat Hentoff
Fiction for Teen-agers
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- How Many Miles to Babylon? by Paula Fox


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Books: Bursting Into History (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

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Books: Golden School Days (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Lives of Children, by George Dennison
- The Lives of Children by George Dennison

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Books: Urban Blight (3 Reviews) Nat Hentoff
Dark Ghetto, by Kenneth B. Clark
- Dark Ghetto by Kenneth B. Clark
- Spanish Harlem by Patricia Cayo Sexton
- The Next Generation by Donald N. Michael

First Amendment Watch
Born Classified.Nat Hentoff
If the courts uphold the constitutionality of the Atomic Energy Act in the Progressive ...

Boston Boy (1986)Nat Hentoff
Growing Up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions
2 Reviews

First Amendment Watch
A Bruising for Cruising.Nat Hentoff
This summer New York homosexuals tried to stop the filming of Cruising, a movie they co...


Call the Keeper (1966)Nat Hentoff
A Novel
2 Reviews

First Amendment
Celebrity Censorship.Nat Hentoff
Both Jane Fonda and Susan Sontag bravely used their First Amendment rights to speak out...

First Amendment
Censorship by libel lawNat Hentoff

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Chaos in Welfare (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Wasted Americans, by Edgar May
- The Wasted Americans by Edgar May

First Amendment Watch
The CIA as Editor.Nat Hentoff
Burger et al. were in such a hurry to punish Frank Snepp, you'd think he'd written The ...



Books
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"Communiques From the Writer's Battlefield of Life" (Review) Nat Hentoff
First Person Singular, by Herbert Gold
- First Person Singular by Herbert Gold


Books and the Arts
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Cool, Like Blocked (Review) Nat Hentoff
Doings and Undoings, by Norman Podhoretz
- Doings and Undoings by Norman Podhoretz

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The Criminal and the Patient (Review) Nat Hentoff
Drug Addiction, by Alfred R. Lindesmith
- Drug Addiction by Alfred R. Lindesmith




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Cuttingly Clear (Review) Nat Hentoff
A Slanting Light, by Gerda Charles
- A Slanting Light by Gerda Charles

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book (1983)Nat Hentoff
1 Review, 1 Readable



Divided DemocratsMike Barnicle, Jerry Brown, Nat Hentoff, and Ron Klink, ...
What Are the Present State and Future Prospects of the Democratic Party? To Find Out, W...


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Documented Bias (Review) Nat Hentoff
Some of My Best Friends..., by Benjamin R. Epstein and Arnold Forster
- Some of My Best Friends... by Benjamin R. Epstein and Arnold Forster

Does Anybody Give a Damn? (1977)Nat Hentoff
On Education
2 Reviews, 1 Readable


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Dropout from What? (Review) Nat Hentoff
Compulsory Mis-Education, and the Community of Scholars, by Paul Goodman
- Compulsory Mis-Education, and the Community of Scholars by Paul Goodman



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The Endless Connection (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Scene, by Clarence L. Cooper, Jr.
- The Scene by Clarence L. Cooper, Jr.

Books
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Equality Before the Law (Review) Nat Hentoff
One Man's Freedom, by Edward Bennett Williams
- One Man's Freedom by Edward Bennett Williams

The Essays of A. J. Muste (1967)Nat Hentoff and A.J. Muste
2 Reviews



Books
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The Experienced Victims (2 Reviews) Nat Hentoff
The Airtight Cage, by Joseph P. Lyford
- The Airtight Cage by Joseph P. Lyford
- The Poorhouse State by Richard M. Elman

First Amendment Watch
Fictionalizing the Law of Libel.Nat Hentoff
Gwen Davis Mitchell's book Touching is a novel. But that didn't stop a California court...


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First Amendment Snapshots.Nat Hentoff
It takes a constant 'free-speech war' to keep the government from censoring the student...

First Amendment
The First Amendment Wins One.Nat Hentoff
"The First Amendment clearly bars the government from penalizing mere advocacy of any i...

The First Freedom (1980)Nat Hentoff
The Tumultuous History of Free Speech in America
2 Reviews, 2 Readable

Views & Reviews
The FM BoomNat Hentoff
Radio for Grown-Ups


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Forget You! (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Way It Spozed to Be, by James Herndon
- The Way It Spozed to Be by James Herndon

First Amendment
Free press v. fair trialsNat Hentoff

First Amendment
Free SpeechNat Hentoff
A Bumpy Road

Free Speech for Me--But Not for Thee (1992)Nat Hentoff
How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
4 Reviews, 1 Readable


Giants at PlayNat Hentoff
It's 50 years since CBS's pioneering 'Sound of Jazz'



Guarding the Home FrontNat Hentoff
Losing the Fourth and First

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A Guide to Cul-de-sacs (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Urban Guerrilla, by Martin Oppenheimer
- The Urban Guerrilla by Martin Oppenheimer

First Amendment Watch
Guilt by Book Association.Nat Hentoff
A federal appeals court has affirmed that reading a book about violence led a man to co...


Books
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Has the Supreme Court a right to privacy? (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Brethren, by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
- The Brethren by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong




Books
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An Important, Original, Provocative Study (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Story of Jazz, by Marshall W. Stearns
- The Story of Jazz by Marshall W. Stearns


In the Country of Ourselves (1971)Nat Hentoff
1 Review, 1 Readable


































































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Inside the Jazz World (Review) Nat Hentoff
Night Song, by John Alfred Williams
- Night Song by John Alfred Williams





James C. HagertyNat Hentoff
Third Man in Network News





Jazz Is (1976)Nat Hentoff
3 Reviews

The Jazz Life (1961)Nat Hentoff
3 Reviews

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The Jazz Life (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Horn, by John Clellon Holmes
- The Horn by John Clellon Holmes






The Jazz Makers (1958)Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff
1 Review, 1 Readable






Mid-Month Recordings
Jimmy GiuffreNat Hentoff

John Cardinal O'Connor (1988)Nat Hentoff
At the Storm Center of a Changing American Catholic Church
3 Reviews

First Amendment Watch
Journalists with Glass Jaws.Nat Hentoff
Are reporters really as bad as the new film Absence of Malice makes them look? Sadly, t...

Journey Into Jazz (1968)Nat Hentoff
1 Review, 1 Readable

First Amendment Watch
Judicial MaliceNat Hentoff
Imagine a place where it's illegal to disagree with a judge in print. The Soviet Union,...

First Amendment Watch
Justice in the Cuckoo's Nest.Nat Hentoff
A federal judge rules that doctors may not pump mental patients full of drugs without t...




First Amendment Watch
Libel Law: New Thorns in the Thicket.Nat Hentoff
This Court's version of the First Amendment creates an open season for libel suits and ...



Books & the Arts
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Liberation---Not Frustration (Review) Nat Hentoff
Look Out, Whitey!, by Julius Lester
- Look Out, Whitey! by Julius Lester






Making This Liberty Stuff Come AliveNat Hentoff
The First Amendment should be as important for kids as their first date--or we'll never...





Music
Merle HaggardNat Hentoff
Classicist

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The Military History of a New York Rag (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Great American Newspaper, by Kevin Michael McAuliffe
- The Great American Newspaper by Kevin Michael McAuliffe


First Amendment Watch
More First Amendment Snapshots.Nat Hentoff
If you're catching a bus in Baltimore, be prepared to be arrested for loitering--and if...

Books
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The Most Deadly Sin (2 Reviews) Nat Hentoff
Death at an Early Age, by Jonathan Kozol
- Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol
- 36 Children~~Thirty-Six Children by Herbert Kohl




MusicNat Hentoff
The Faces of Harry Belafonte

MusicNat Hentoff
'He Knows Why I'm Crying'

MusicNat Hentoff
The 'Daily Nothings' of M. Montand

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Nader's Nadir.Nat Hentoff
A thin-skinned "consumer advocate" tramples freedom of the press in order to silence a ...

The Nat Hentoff Reader (2001)Nat Hentoff
2 Reviews, 1 Readable

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Neo-Beat (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Messenger, by Charles Wright
- The Messenger by Charles Wright


The New Equality (1964)Nat Hentoff
3 Reviews, 1 Readable


The New JacobinsNat Hentoff
Will the Terror of Political Correctness Spread from the Campus to the 'Real World'?

First Amendment Watch
The New Legions of Erotic Decency.Nat Hentoff
The crusade against pornography has feminist leadership now, but behind the marches and...



Not Just LoveNat Hentoff
Cardinal John O'Connor, 1920-2000

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O Land of Plenty (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Beer Can by the Highway, by John A. Kouwenhoven
- The Beer Can by the Highway by John A. Kouwenhoven

Obstacle Course to MeccaNat Hentoff
Jazz in New York

Views & Reviews
The Octopus of Show BizNat Hentoff

Music
The onliest PrezNat Hentoff

Onwards! (1968)Nat Hentoff
A Novel
5 Reviews

Our Children Are Dying (1966)Nat Hentoff
4 Reviews, 1 Readable


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Our Negro Segregationists (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Black Muslims in America, by C. Eric Lincoln
- The Black Muslims in America by C. Eric Lincoln


Music
Paying her duesNat Hentoff


Peace Agitator (1964)Nat Hentoff
Story of A. J. Muste
2 Reviews


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The People Inside (Review) Nat Hentoff
Dancers on the Shore, by William Melvin Kelley
- Dancers on the Shore by William Melvin Kelley


A Political Life (1969)Nat Hentoff
The Education of John V. Lindsay
2 Reviews

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Popular Music (Review) Nat Hentoff
Listen to the Blues, by Bruce Cook
- Listen to the Blues by Bruce Cook


Books
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Pressures for Change in Our Courts (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Trial of the Future, by Bernard Botein and Murray A. Gordon
- The Trial of the Future by Bernard Botein and Murray A. Gordon

Privacy and the PressNat Hentoff
Is Nothing Sacred?


Pro-Choice BigotsNat Hentoff
Intolerance on the abortion issue is not restricted to the pro-lifers. A view from the ...








First Amendment
Pulling Books Through Loopholes.Nat Hentoff
Two huge loopholes in a recent Supreme Court ruling will allow censorship of schoolbook...


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Question Marks (2 Reviews) Nat Hentoff
The Fantastic Lodge, by Janet Clark and Helen MacGill Hughes
- The Fantastic Lodge by Janet Clark and Helen MacGill Hughes
- In the Life by Theodore Isaac Rubin




First Amendment Watch
A Reckless Disregard for a Free Press.Nat Hentoff
The Supreme Court's decision in the Herbert case threatens to make candor in the newsro...









Views & Reviews
Record NotesNat Hentoff









RecordingsNat Hentoff
I Read The News Today

RecordsNat Hentoff
The Lost Elders of Jazz

RecordsNat Hentoff
Vox Populi

RecordsNat Hentoff
A Gypsy's Guitar

RecordsNat Hentoff
Jazz on Stereo

RecordsNat Hentoff
Music of the Streets


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Reminiscing in Tempo (Review) Nat Hentoff
Sometimes I Wonder, by Hoagy Carmichael and Stephen Longstreet
- Sometimes I Wonder by Hoagy Carmichael and Stephen Longstreet


Books
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The Screen: Poor Dad (Review) Nat Hentoff
How Children Fail, by John Caldwell Holt
- How Children Fail by John Caldwell Holt

Books
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The Stage (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X

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The Stage (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Schoolchildren: Growing up in the Slums, by Mary Frances Greene and Orletta Ryan
- The Schoolchildren: Growing up in the Slums by Mary Frances Greene and Orletta Ryan

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"A Winter Without Snow" (Review) Nat Hentoff
World War I and the Origin of Civil Liberties in the United States, by Paul L. Murphy
- World War I and the Origin of Civil Liberties in the United States by Paul L. Murphy

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Rhetoric and Relevance (3 Reviews) Nat Hentoff
Black Man's America, by Simeon Booker
- Black Man's America by Simeon Booker
- Fire-Bell in the Night by Oscar Handlin
- My People Is the Enemy by William Stringfellow

First Amendment
The Right to ReadNat Hentoff



The Schools We WantNat Hentoff and Margot Hentoff
A Family Dialogue

First Amendment
Score one for the pressNat Hentoff




Speaking Freely (1997)Nat Hentoff
A Memoir
1 Review, 1 Readable


State Secrets (1974)Paul Cowan, Nick Egleson, and Nat Hentoff
Police Surveillance in America
2 Reviews, 1 Readable

First Amendment Watch
Stifling the Progressive.Nat Hentoff
The case of The Progressive involves the highest stakes, but most of the nation's paper...





First Amendment Watch
Ted Kennedy's Jihad Against the Bill of Rights.Nat Hentoff
By the time you read this, a criminal code "reform" bill that cavalierly attacks some o...



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Three Poets (Review) Nat Hentoff
Freedom and Beyond, by John Holt
- Freedom and Beyond by John Holt


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Urgently Pro-Life (Review) Nat Hentoff
The One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, by Robert Gover
- The One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding by Robert Gover


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A Village Anarchist (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Society I Live In Is Mine, by Paul Goodman
- The Society I Live In Is Mine by Paul Goodman

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Waking Up the White Folks Again (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Algiers Motel Incident, by John Hersey
- The Algiers Motel Incident by John Hersey

War on the Bill of RightsNat Hentoff
Why should we care? It's only the Constitution


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What Man Has Made He Can Change (Review) Nat Hentoff
Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals, by Paul Goodman
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals by Paul Goodman


Special Annual Book Section
What to Save When the Book Burners ComeLynn Scarlett, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr, and Poul Anderson, ...





First Amendment Watch
While Congress Slept.Nat Hentoff
Without a hint of it in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the newsweeklies, or t...



The Weather Report
Why Not Test the Teachers?Nat Hentoff


Views & Reviews
Why the Rebbe Didn't DanceNat Hentoff


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Winds of Change (Review) Nat Hentoff
The Negro Revolt, by Louis E. Lomax
- The Negro Revolt by Louis E. Lomax

First Amendment Watch
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Sabbath.Nat Hentoff
Forced to choose between their religion and their graduation ceremony, the Stein sister...



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999/1000 Plus One (Review) Nat Hentoff
Born to Win, by Woody Guthrie and Robert Shelton
- Born to Win by Woody Guthrie and Robert Shelton
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