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About 64 pages (19,320 words) in 27 products |
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| Name: |
Nat Hentoff | | Birth Date: |
June 10, 1925 | | Place of Birth: |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
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Writer, Columnist, Critic, Editor |
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 Biography of Nat Hentoff
5,768 words, approx. 19 pages
 On June 10, 1925, Nat Hentoff was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Russian Jewish immigrants. "I grew up in Roxbury, then a ghetto of Boston. It was in the 1930s and early 1940s, a time of righteous anti-Semitism around the country, but nowhere more... summary from source:
Biography of Nat Hentoff
3,790 words, approx. 13 pages
Asked once to cite the key influences in his life, journalist, essayist, author, and novelist Nat Hentoff replied in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series (CAAS), "Being Jewish. Jazz. The First Amendment." The second and third categories have... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Nat Hentoff Information
933 words, approx. 3 pages
 Hentoff received his B.A. with the highest honors from Northeastern University and did graduate work at Harvard. He was a Fulbright fellow at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1950. From 1953 through 1957 he was associate editor of Down Beat magazine. He was...
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 Free Inquiry A response to Nat Hentoff. (OP-ED).
12/22/2001: 1,128 words, approx. 4 pages I read with considerable interest Nat Hentoff's "A Pro-Life Atheistic Civil Libertarian" (FREE INQUIRY, Fall 2001). Hentoff wrote that he became pro-life seventeen years ago when, among other things, he learned from doctors that a fetus is a separate genetic entity, an individual... summary from source:
The Washington Post Nat Hentoff On All That's Jazz
04/26/1995: 806 words, approx. 3 pages LISTEN TO THE STORIES Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music By Nat Hentoff HarperCollins. 220 pp. $23 It's hard to realize that nearly two decades have passed since the last book about jazz by Nat Hentoff, one of the best jazz writers... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Confusion at Columbia
3/8/2005: 295 words, approx. 1 pages"Where's Giff?" was the question heard most frequently in the press section at Sunday's conference at Columbia University, elaborately titled, "The Middle East & Academic Integrity on the American Campus," which was attended by the Observer's real estate correspondent Michael Calderone. According to the event's... summary from source:
The New York Observer Voice Editor Blum, "Union Guy," Meets Underlings Today, Overlings Tomorrow
9/6/2006: 365 words, approx. 1 pagesVillage Voice. Blum was on the phone after a meeting with staff at the newspaper's Cooper Square office. Last week, his superiors-to-be at Village Voice Media dismissed eight staffers from the weekly paper. Today, six days before his official Sept. 12 start date, Blum told...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Martin B. Duberman
1,244 words, approx. 4 pages
In the current deluge of "civil rights" literature, this excellent book [The New Equality] is unlikely to get the wide reading it deserves. Which is too bad, for it is one of the few to put "the movement" in a broader context, to deal in recommendations as well as jeremiads, and to adopt a radical as opposed to a liberal stance (that is, dealing in essentials rather than palliatives). The book has faults, largely organizational. Since they are not significant when weighed against... summary from source:
Critical Essay by John A. Nelson
960 words, approx. 3 pages
Hentoff's ability to speak both passionately and objectively makes The First Freedom a success. Readers are left with two valuable insights, each essential to a healthy tolerance for the role of free expression in our society. The first is that the First Amendment has never been static. The wording seems simple enough ("Congress shall make no law …") but the interpretation and application of those words to changing circumstances has been one of the great challenges to our society... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Eleanor Cameron
721 words, approx. 2 pages
Nat Hentoff has written two novels for teenagers: one good, Jazz Country …; and one, to my mind, a failure, I'm really dragged but nothing gets me down…. In his essay "Fiction for Teenagers," Hentoff says, "Is it possible, then, to reach these children of McLuhan in that old-time medium, the novel? I believe it is, because their primary concerns are only partially explored in the messages they get from their music and are diverted rather than probed on television. I...
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