The Nat Hentoff reader / Nat Hentoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hentoff, Nat.

Standardized Title:

Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hentoff, Nat.

United States. Constitution--1st-10th Amendments.

United States.

Freedom of speech.

Civil rights.

Jazz.

O'Connor, John J. (John Joseph), 1920-2000.

O'Connor, John J.

Racism.

Political correctness.

Physical Description:

xiii, 322 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Da Capo Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2001.

Contents:

Part 1 The Condition of Liberty 1

Fair-Weather Friends of the First Amendment 3

The Diminishing First Amendment 11

This "Liberty Stuff" 18

Individuals of Conscience against the State 23

First Friend 52

The First State to Abolish Obscenity 58

Multicultural Contempt for Free Speech 66

My Man of the Century 79

Part 2 The Passion of Creation 83

Lenny Bruce: The Crucifixion of a True Believer 85

Jazz: Music Beyond Time and Nations 94

Lester Young: President of the Blues 101

"The Deepest Blues We Ever Heard" 105

A Clarinetist of Swing and Sweet Sorrow 109

Dizzy in the Sunlight, I 114

Dizzy in the Sunlight, II 121

White Line Fever 128

Music: A Torchbearer for Timeless Swing 144

The Jazz Party 148

A TV Exclusive! The Passion of Huckleberry Dracula 153

Part 3 The Persistence of Race 163

The Integrationist 165

Louis Armstrong and Reconstruction 224

Multicultural Myths about Jews 231

A Racial Incident on a Train 234

Invisible Murders 237

One Boy's "Sensitivity Training" 241

Breaking through Racial Barriers 244

Part 4 The Beast of Politics 249

The Mark of the Beast 251

Rescuing HIV Infants from ACLU Dogma 259

The Awful Privacy of Baby Doe 263

Something to Hide in the Nursery? 286

Press Swoons for a Bunco Artist 290

Life of the Party 294

My Friend the Cardinal 298.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0306810840

OCLC:

48190371