Nat Hentoff

Nat Hentoff (born June 10, 1925) is a civil libertarian, free speech absolutist, pro-life advocate, anti-death penalty advocate, jazz critic, historian, biographer and anecdotist, and columnist for the Village Voice, Legal Times, Washington Times, The Progressive, Editor & Publisher, Free Inquiry and Jewish World Review. He was named as one of six 2004 NEA Jazz Masters, the first non-musician to win this prestigious award.

Books

• Does Anybody Give a Damn?: Nat Hentoff on Education Random House; (1977)
• Our Children Are Dying
• A Doctor Among Addicts
• Peace Agitator: The Story of A. J Muste ISBN 0960809600
• The New Equality
• The First Freedom: The Tumultuous History of Free Speech in America
• The Day They Came to Arrest the Book ISBN 0440918146
• The Man from Internal Affairs
• Boston Boy: Growing Up With Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions ISBN 096796752X
• John Cardinal O'Connor: At the Storm Center of a Changing American Catholic Church
• Free Speech for Me -- But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other ISBN 0060995106
• Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music
• Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American ISBN 0520219813
• The Nat Hentoff Reader ISBN 0306810840
• The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance ISBN 1583226214
• The Jazz Life ISBN 0306800888