The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America - Paperback
by David Hajdu
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312428235ISBN-10:312428235UPC:9780312428235Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, HumorBook Subcategory:Comics & Graphic Novels, United States, FormBook Topic:20th Century, Comic Strips & CartoonsSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCY3424RXG
The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told -- until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu's remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority.
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...Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312428235ISBN-10:312428235UPC:9780312428235Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, HumorBook Subcategory:Comics & Graphic Novels, United States, FormBook Topic:20th Century, Comic Strips & CartoonsSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCY3424RXG
David Hajdu is the author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña.
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