My mother, when she was younger, worked at Filene's in Boston. And she was chief cashier. And I always wondered why she… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research.… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in Boston, it was one of the most anti-Semitic cities in the country. If you were living… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
It was a competitive examination [in Boston Latin School]. Poor kids, Brahmans, middle-class kids. The masters, as the teachers were called, didn't… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[Cardinal John O'Connor] had [my wife] Margot and me over for drinks a couple of times. That was something I never could… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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