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Speaking Freely: A Memoir By Nat Hentoff Alfred A. Knopf: 1997. By Robert L. Bernstein. … Buy Speaking Freely: A Memoir 1st Edition by Hentoff, Nat (ISBN: 9780679436478) from Amazon's Book Store. Read the Review. Written with deep honesty and affection, and rooted in music, politics, and the press, Speaking Freely is a memoir as candid, opinionated, and provocative as any American journalist has ever offered. Both books are about being an outcast with a sense of humor. N at Hentoff still feels the rage. Speaking Freely succeeds as both the record of a journalist’s career and as a commentary on the contentious issues of the late twentieth century. Included in 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 Speaking freely Salman Rushdie’s long-anticipated memoir fails to separate the wheat from the chaff in relating his years in hiding. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Product Identifiers. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. ''Speaking Freely'' is the sequel to an earlier memoir, ''Boston Boy,'' about his youth as a Jew in Irish Boston. Speaking Freely: A Memoir Nat Hentoff, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-679-43647-8. In the 1950s, such influential intellectuals as Daniel Bell and Norman Podhoretz had discovered that the ideological wars were over in the United States. Memos packaged as a memoir from Village Voice and Washington Post columnist Hentoff (Listen to the Stories, 1995, etc. More By and About This Author. Speaking Freely A Memoir. Publisher. By NAT HENTOFF Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover; by Jim Trageser This review first appeared in the American Reporter in 1997. ).Boston Boy (1986), his first memoir, told how Hentoff came to be the person he is. REMEMBERING MALCOLM. In his latest book, "Speaking Freely," Hentoff quotes columnist Tom Wicker writing about I.F. Speaking Freely: A Scholar's Memoir of Experience in the University of California SPEAKING FREELY: MY LIFE IN PUBLISHING AND HUMAN RIGHTS. OTHER BOOKS. Free Speech for Me- … As a child, he was suffocated by the twin choke holds of Irish thugs and a Jewish mother. Speaking Freely: A Scholar's Memoir of Experience in the University of California [Taylor, Angus Ellis] on Amazon.com. What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? 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