Nat Hentoff

Nat Hentoff is one of the foremost authorities on the First Amendment

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Nat Hentoff Biography

While his books and articles regularly defend the rights of Americans to think and speak freely, he also explores our freedoms under the rest of the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment by showing how Supreme Court and local legislative decisions affect the lives of ordinary Americans. Hentoff’s column, Sweet Land of Liberty, has been distributed by the United Feature Syndicate since 1992. Hentoff has earned numerous awards and is a widely acknowledged defender of civil liberties. In 1980, he was awarded an American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award for his coverage of the law and criminal justice in his columns. In 1983, the American Library Association awarded him the Imroth Award for Intellectual Freedom. In 1995, he received the National Press Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism, and in 1999, he was a Pulitzer finalist for commentary. Hentoff was a columnist and staff writer with The Village Voice for 51 years, from 1957 until 2008. A jazz expert, Hentoff writes on music for The Wall Street Journal and Jazz Times. Hentoff has lectured at many colleges, universities, law schools, elementary, middle and high schools, and has taught courses in journalism and the Constitution at Princeton University and New York University. Mr. Hentoff serves on the Board of Advisors of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (F.I.R.E.) and is on the steering committee of the Reporters’ Committee for the Freedom of the Press. A native of Boston, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in education and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1950. He did graduate work at Harvard University, received his B.A. with highest honors from Northeastern University and was awarded an honorary doctorate of law from Northeastern in 1985.

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Nat Hentoff Books

  • Alfred Publishing 06-217264 Hear Me Talkin' to Ya - A Story of Jazz
    Alfred Publishing 06-217264 Hear Me Talkin' to Ya - A Story of Jazz
  • At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene
    At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene
  • Jazz Is
    Jazz Is
  • American Music Is
    American Music Is
  • The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance
    The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance
  • Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions
    Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions

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