Nat Hentoff
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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.
In recent years, he has become a vocal critic of the organization he once supported, the American Civil Liberties Union, for its support of government-enforced campus and workplace speech codes 1 (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff092099.asp) and affirmative action, which he considers to be state-sponsored racial discrimination.
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
Quote
"I'm a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer."
External links
- Recent columns (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff1.asp)
- Columns on abortion (http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~rauch/nvp/hentoff.html)