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

Traces the origins of jazz in the urban culture of black America and profiles such pioneers as Count Basie, Charles Mingus, and John Coltrane

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

Twelve-year-old Sam, who has a magnetic attraction for trouble, finds it increasingly difficult to attend the school where his father is headmaster.

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

Product Description: Shapiro, Hentoff, and seven contributors write of the lives and works of 19 men and two women famous in American jazz.

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

Documents a Harlem principal's efforts to provide deprived and disadvantaged students with a meaningful education

Leading jazz composers and performers reveal their personal feelings toward the history and future of the art form