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Jazz authority.

Writer on issues relating to the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

Recipient of a Jazz Masters Award from the USA's National Endowment for the Arts in 2004.

Is a pro-life, anti-death penalty libertarian whose books include "Free Speech for Me But Not for Thee," "This School is Driving Me Crazy," "The Day They Came to Arrest the Book," "The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering of Resistance" and "Is There a Duty to Die?", among many others. He has also written numerous books on music, especially jazz.

Was a vocal critic of John Ashcroft, US Attorney General during the first administration of President George W. Bush. Hentoff called for amending the notorious Patriot Act--passed after the terrorist attack on the New York City World Trade Center on 9/11/2001--so that it better served the interests of Americans and their civil liberties. He also supported the 2003 US-led war in Iraq, and has been an outspoken critic of the theocratic Islamist North Sudanese regime, which had been shown to have enslaved and committed genocide against the non-Arab, non-Muslim Southern Sudanese populace, which is either Christian or animist.

In the 1960s he worked as A&R director for Archie Bleyer's Candid Records.

Father of Nick Hentoff.