Boston boy
Subtitle: growing up with jazz and other rebellious passions
By: Nat Hentoff.
Publisher: Paul Dry
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Hentoff, Nat -- Childhood and youth; Hentoff, Nat -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Jews -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography; Music critics -- United States -- Biography; Journalists -- United States -- Biography; Jazz -- History and criticism; Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Boston Boy is Nat Hentoff's memoir of growing up in the Roxbury section of Boston in the 1930s and 40s. As he grapples with anti-Semitism, he develops a passion for outspoken journalism and First Amendment freedom of speech. He discovers his love of jazz and gets to know the great jazz artists of the day, Duke Ellington and Lester Young among others."--BOOK JACKET.