Speaking Freely: A Memoir - Hardcover

Hentoff, Nat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679436472 ISBN 13: 9780679436478

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

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Book by nat hentoff

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Continues the story of the author's life through forty years of journalism and presents his views on civil rights, antiwar movements, abortion, Malcolm X, Louis Farrakkhan, and John Cardinal O'Connor

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Speaking Freely are, as Nat Hentoff writes:

"My lives as a radical (according to the FBI); an 'enslaver of women' (according to pro-choicers); a suspiciously unpredictable civil-libertarian (according to the ACLU); a dangerous defender of alleged pornography (according to my friend Catherine MacKinnon); an irrelevant, anachronistic integrationist (according to assorted black nationalists); and, as an editor at the Washington Post once said, not unkindly--'a  general pain in the ass.' "
  
Continuing the story that began in his widely praised Boston Boy, Nat Hentoff in Speaking Freely guides us through more than forty years of his life in journalism, a career as various as his passions, and follows our social history from the civil rights and antiwar movements to the most incendiary battles (such as abortion) of the present day.
  
Hentoff first evokes New York in the fifties, when he wrote for the

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679436472
• ISBN 13: 9780679436478
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 303