The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

Description: Amazon.com Review Amazon Significant Seven, March 2008: I may be alone here, but when I read Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, a whole strata of American artists came to life for me. Ever since then I've been waiting for a book like David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague to come along and show me the contours of this world. Anyone who remembers Positively 4th Street will recognize in this new book Hajdu's peerless ability to weave first-person recollections with an acute perspective of America at a pivotal moment in its cultural timeline. The rise of comics as a mode of expression, an outlet for entertainm ... (more)

Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release date: 18 March 2008
ISBN-10 : 0374187673 | ISBN-13: 9780374187675

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