Living the Bill of Rights Ho to Be an Authentic American [Paperback]

Nat Hentoff is one of America's most passionate and prominent writers about civil liberties and civil rights. InLiving the Bill of Rights, he has taken what is too often thought of as an abstract issue and enlivened it by focusing on representative individuals for whom the Constitution is a vital part of life. As the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan told Hentoff, Americans need to know how American liberties were wonand what it takes to keep them alive. With characteristic eloquence, Hentoff covers the full range of American life in these inspiring profiles and stories about public and private heroesSupreme Court Justices William Brennan and William O. Douglas, Dr. Kenneth Clark, and students, teachers, lawyers, and others who challenge assaults on the Bill of Rights.

Nat Hentoffis the author of many articles and books about jazz, politics, and education, includingFree Speech for MeBut Not for Thee(1992). His syndicated column, Sweet Land of Liberty, appears in theWashington Postand more than two hundred other newspapers, and he is a weekly contributor to theVillage Voice. He lives in New York City.