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Nat Hentoff




In recent years, he has become a vocal critic of the organization he once supported, the , which he considers to be state-sponsored racial and ethnic Discrimination . He now serves on the board of advisors for the Foundation For Individual Rights In Education , a Civil Liberties group separate from the ACLU.

He is strongly critical of Bush Administration policies such as the Patriot Act and the civil liberties implications of the recent push for " Homeland Security ." He was also strongly critical of Clinton Administration policies such as the Anti-Terrorism And Effective Death Penalty Act .

In February 2003 , Hentoff signed a letter circulated by Social Democrats, USA advocating the removal of Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq .

In October 2005 , Hentoff was honored by the Human Life Foundation at the Third Annual Great Defender of Life dinner.

Hentoff was educated at Boston Latin School , Northeastern University , and Harvard .


BOOKS

  • ''Does Anybody Give a Damn?: Nat Hentoff on Education'' Random House; ( 1977 )

  • ''Our Children Are Dying''

  • ''A Doctor Among Addicts''

  • ''Peace Agitator: The Story of A. J Muste'' ISBN 0960809600

  • ''The New Equality''

  • ''The First Freedom: The Tumultuous History of Free Speech in America''

  • ''The Day They Came to Arrest the Book'' ISBN 0440918146

  • ''The Man from Internal Affairs''

  • ''Boston Boy: Growing Up With Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions'' ISBN 096796752X

  • ''John Cardinal O'Connor: At the Storm Center of a Changing American Catholic Church''

  • ''Free Speech for Me -- But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other'' ISBN 0060995106

  • ''Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music''

  • ''Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American'' ISBN 0520219813

  • ''The Nat Hentoff Reader'' ISBN 0306810840

  • ''The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance'' ISBN 1583226214

  • ''The Jazz Life'' ISBN 0306800888

  • ''Does This School Have Capital Punishment?''

  • ''I'm Really Dragged But Nothing Gets Me Down''

  • ''Jazz Country''

  • ''This School is Driving Me Crazy''



QUOTE

"I'm a Jew ish Atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer."


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