The Nat Hentoff Reader

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More than 20 years of Nat Hentoff's dazzling and provocative writings on jazz, politics, and American thought

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Introduction	p. ix
The Condition of Liberty	p. 1
Fair-Weather Friends of the First Amendment	p. 3
The Diminishing First Amendment	p. 11
This "Liberty Stuff"	p. 18
Individuals of Conscience against the State	p. 23
First Friend	p. 52
The First State to Abolish Obscenity	p. 58
Multicultural Contempt for Free Speech	p. 66
My Man of the Century	p. 79
The Passion of Creation	p. 83
Lenny Bruce: The Crucifixion of a True Believer	p. 85
Jazz: Music Beyond Time and Nations	p. 94
Lester Young: President of the Blues	p. 101
"The Deepest Blues We Ever Heard"	p. 105
A Clarinetist of Swing and Sweet Sorrow	p. 109
Dizzy in the Sunlight, I	p. 114
Dizzy in the Sunlight, II	p. 121
White Line Fever	p. 128
Music: A Torchbearer for Timeless Swing	p. 144
The Jazz Party	p. 148
A TV Exclusive! The Passion of Huckleberry Dracula	p. 153
The Persistence of Race	p. 163
The Integrationist	p. 165
Louis Armstrong and Reconstruction	p. 224
Multicultural Myths about Jews	p. 231
A Racial Incident on a Train	p. 234
Invisible Murders	p. 237
One Boy's "Sensitivity Training"	p. 241
Breaking through Racial Barriers	p. 244
The Beast of Politics	p. 249
The Mark of the Beast	p. 251
Rescuing HIV Infants from ACLU Dogma	p. 259
The Awful Privacy of Baby Doe	p. 263
Something to Hide in the Nursery?	p. 286
Press Swoons for a Bunco Artist	p. 290
Life of the Party	p. 294
My Friend the Cardinal	p. 298
Index	p. 303
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