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Boston boy

Nat Hentoff

1986175 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1986
first published
  • 1986Knopf · 175 pages · ENGISBN 9780394407449
  • 1987Faber and Faber · 175 pages · ENGISBN 9780571129515
  • 2001Paul Dry · 212 pages · ENGISBN 9780967967523

"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.

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