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A Manhattan teen-ager is torn between an opportunity to attend Amherst College and the desire to pursue a career as a jazz musician.
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9780440942030 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, August 1, 1983), cover price $2.25 | About this edition: A Manhattan teen-ager is torn between an opportunity to attend Amherst College and the desire to pursue a career as a jazz musician.
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9780060223069 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1965, cover price $12.89
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9780486217260 | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1966, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Leading jazz composers and performers reveal their personal feelings toward the history and future of the art form
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Documents a Harlem principal's efforts to provide deprived and disadvantaged students with a meaningful education
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9780670002108 | Viking Pr, August 1, 1967, cover price $2.25 | About this edition: Documents a Harlem principal's efforts to provide deprived and disadvantaged students with a meaningful education
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9780440939887 | Dell Pub Co, June 1, 1969, cover price $1.50
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9780671650452 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1968, cover price $5.79
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Product Description: The names of Nat Hentoff and Albert J. McCarthy have become almost synonymous with jazz writing. Hentoff, editor of Jazz Review, writer for Downbeat, High Fidelity, New Yorker, and theVillage Voice, and McCarthy, editor of Jazz Monthly, have raised jazz beyond mere appreciation and discography to a subject which demands the rigorous application of musicological, sociological, and historical analysis...read more
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9780306705922 | Da Capo Pr, June 1, 1974, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: The names of Nat Hentoff and Albert J.
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Product Description: Shapiro, Hentoff, and seven contributors write of the lives and works of 19 men and two women famous in American jazz.
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9780837170985 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1975, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Shapiro, Hentoff, and seven contributors write of the lives and works of 19 men and two women famous in American jazz.
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9780306800023 | Da Capo Pr, January 21, 1975, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The names of Nat Hentoff and Albert J.
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9780306706813 | Da Capo Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: Traces the origins of jazz in the urban culture of black America and profiles such pioneers as Count Basie, Charles Mingus, and John Coltrane
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9780306800887 | Da Capo Pr, August 21, 1978, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Traces the origins of jazz in the urban culture of black America and profiles such pioneers as Count Basie, Charles Mingus, and John Coltrane
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Twelve-year-old Sam, who has a magnetic attraction for trouble, finds it increasingly difficult to attend the school where his father is headmaster.
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9780440052876 | Doubleday, November 1, 1975, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Sam Davidson is torn between keeping the secret of a middle-school extortion victim and preserving the trust and respect of his father, the headmaster
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Product Description: "A beautifully written, evocative tribute to an elusive art... Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Teddy Wilson, Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, and Gato Barbieri." - Performing Arts
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9780394400952 | Random House Inc, August 1, 1976, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: The words and music of eleven jazz greats, including Ellington, Holiday, Armstrong, Davis, and Coltrane, contribute to accounts of their lives and styles and of the nature and evolution of jazz
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9780756750459 | Diane Pub Co, July 1, 1992, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: "A beautifully written, evocative tribute to an elusive art.
9780879100032 | Limelight Editions, March 1, 1984, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: "A beautifully written, evocative tribute to an elusive art.
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Offers accounts of public-school teachers and principals who refuse, in the face of formidable odds, to allow their students to give up on themselves and explores issues of and conditions in America's schools
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9780394409337 | Random House Inc, April 1, 1977, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Offers accounts of public-school teachers and principals who refuse, in the face of formidable odds, to allow their students to give up on themselves and explores issues of and conditions in America's schools
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Presents an overview of the battles fought to preserve the freedoms protected by the First Amendment, from the suppression of the press in the eighteenth century to the current controversy over obscenity, libel, and a journalist's right to protect his sources
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9780385284271 | Delacorte Pr, March 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A history of free speech in our country from earliest times to some of the controversial court cases of today involving school demonstrations and the right of Nazis to march.
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Discusses the history of the First Amendment right to free speech, examining the crisis over censorship, obscenity, libel, and the journalist's right to protect his sources
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9780385296434 | Delacorte Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A history of free speech in our country from earliest times to some of the controversial court cases of today involving school demonstrations and the right of Nazis to march.
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9780440038504 | Doubleday, June 1, 1980, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A history of free speech in our country from earliest times to some of the controversial court cases of today involving school demonstrations and the right of Nazis to march.
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At a prestigious prep school in New York, Sam Davidson faces expulsion from school when he is wrongly accused of possessing marijuana and seeks help from a friendly jazz musician
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9780385282208 | Delacorte Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: At a prestigious prep school in New York, Sam Davidson faces expulsion from school when he is wrongly accused of possessing marijuana and seeks help from a friendly jazz musician
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9780440920700 | Reissue edition (Dell Pub Co, April 1, 1987), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: At a prestigious prep school in New York, Sam Davidson faces expulsion from school when he is wrongly accused of possessing marijuana and seeks help from a friendly jazz musician
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Presents an overview of the battles fought to preserve the freedoms protected by the First Amendment, from the suppression of the press in the eighteenth century to the current controversy over obscenity, libel, and a journalist's right to protect his sources.Presents an overview of the battles fought to preserve the freedoms protected by the first Amendment, from the suppression of the press in the eighteenth century to the current controversy over obscenity, libel, and a journalist's right to protect his sources
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9780440338505 | Dell Pub Co, July 1, 1981, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Presents an overview of the battles fought to preserve the freedoms protected by the First Amendment, from the suppression of the press in the eighteenth century to the current controversy over obscenity, libel, and a journalist's right to protect his sources.
9781223011561 | Dell Pub Co, July 1, 1981, cover price $2.50
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Jazz-loving New York police detective Noah Green, trying to find a killer on New York's Lower East side, finds himself trying, at the same time, to ward off the depredations of the Internal Affairs Division
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9780892961412, titled "The Man from Internal Affairs" | Mysterious Pr, October 1, 1985, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Jazz-loving New York police detective Noah Green, trying to find a killer on New York's Lower East Side, finds himself trying, at the same time, to ward off the depredations of the Internal Affairs Division
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9780445405097 | Reprint edition (Popular Library, October 1, 1986), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Jazz-loving New York police detective Noah Green, trying to find a killer on New York's Lower East side, finds himself trying, at the same time, to ward off the depredations of the Internal Affairs Division
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9780394407449 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The well-known columnist and commentator offers a funny and poignant memoir of his youth as a Jew growing up in Boston and of the influences that molded him, from the Boston Latin school, to the candy store, to jazz
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9780571129515 | Faber & Faber, June 1, 1987, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The well-known columnist and commentator offers a funny and poignant memoir of his youth as a Jew growing up in Boston and of the influences that molded him, from the Boston Latin school, to the candy store, to jazz
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9780440987024 | Reissue edition (Laurel Leaf, August 1, 1986), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Sam Davidson is torn between keeping the secret of a middle-school extortion victim and preserving the trust and respect of his father, the headmaster
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Focuses on the legal battles of ten students, librarians, and others seeking to protect the Bill of Rights, with an emphasis on the areas of free speech and civil rights.
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9780385295659 | Delacorte Pr, July 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes the battles fought by high school students and adults across the country for their First Amendment rights, covering issues ranging from censorship to invasion of privacy
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A close-up look at a man at the Center of battles over changes in the Catholic Church draws on intensive interviews and research in order to present the human side of a powerful man leader of the American Catholic Church and the diverse issues dividing the church
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9780684189444 | Scribner, May 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A close-up look at a man at the Center of battles over changes in the Catholic Church draws on intensive interviews and research in order to present the human side of a powerful man leader of the American Catholic Church and the diverse issues dividing the church
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Free Speech for Me--But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
Product Description: Hentoff's timely, fact-filled, and illuminating book describes the current assault on free speech from all points of the political spectrum--even from the traditionally liberal groups now intent on repressing opinions thought "politically incorrect."
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9780060190064 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1992, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Examines the issues of free speech and censorship, discussing examples where only one side of an issue was permitted to be voiced
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9780060995102 | Reprint edition (Perennial, August 1, 1993), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Hentoff's timely, fact-filled, and illuminating book describes the current assault on free speech from all points of the political spectrum--even from the traditionally liberal groups now intent on repressing opinions thought "politically incorrect.
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9780060190477 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1995, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Interviews with and profiles of some of the nation's greatest jazz, country, and gospel musicians are joined by personal commentary by the noted critic, columnist, and jazz aficionado
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9780306809828 | Da Capo Pr, October 12, 2000, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Here is Nat Hentoff's deeply felt exploration of jazz, blues, country, and gospel—and the musicians who bring the music to life.
9780060927127 | Perennial, April 1, 1996, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Interviews with and profiles of some of the nation's greatest jazz, country, and gospel musicians are joined by personal commentary and reminiscence by the noted critic, columnist, and jazz aficionado's pieces that first appeared in The Wall Street Journal.
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9780679436478 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Continues the story of the author's life through forty years of journalism and presents his views on civil rights, antiwar movements, abortion, Malcolm X, Louis Farrakkhan, and John Cardinal O'Connor
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9780060190101 | Harpercollins, July 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Demonstrates what can be done to protect citizen rights when the Bill of Rights is thought of as a living document
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9780520219816 | Univ of California Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Demonstrates what can be done to protect citizen rights when the Bill of Rights is thought of as a living document
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Product Description: In this collection of eight provocative essays, the author sets forth his views on the need to replace patient-centered bioethics with family-centered bioethics. Starting with a critique of the awkward language with which philosphers argue the ethics of personal relationships, the book goes on to present a general statement on the necessity of family-centered bioethics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415922418 | Routledge, February 1, 2000, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: In this collection of eight provocative essays, the author sets forth his views on the need to replace patient-centered bioethics with family-centered bioethics.
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9780415922425 | Routledge, October 1, 1999, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: In this collection of eight provocative essays, the author sets forth his views on the need to replace patient-centered bioethics with family-centered bioethics.
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