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David Hajdu (POSITIVELY 4TH STREET) delves into the tawdry, bloody, and sensationalistic early years of comic books, and tells the story of how they became a target for moralizing censors in the Red-scare wake of World War II. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2008., In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created--in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress--only to resurface with a crooked smile on its face in Mad magazine.-- From publisher description.
| Size | | Length: | 434 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 24.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Hajdu's important book dramatizes an early, long-forgotten skirmish in the culture wars that half a century later, continue to roil."
(03/21/2008)
"THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE is an intrepid excavation of pop-cultural history."
"[THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE] tells an amazing story, with thrills and chills more extreme than the workings of a comic book's imagination."
(09/29/2008)
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