Title: Boston boy
Subtitle: growing up with jazz and other rebellious passions
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, History and criticism, Jews, Intellectual life, Jazz, American Authors, Youth, Homes and haunts, Ethnic relations, Music critics, History, Childhood and youth, Biography, Journalists, Musicians, biography, Homes, Manners and customs, Journalists, biography
Places: Boston, Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), United States
People: Nat Hentoff
Time periods: 20th century