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

$7.99

Author David Hajdu

Format Hardcover

Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Category Comics History and Culture

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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. Comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress. This book opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority, showing how--years before rock 'n' roll--comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards.-- From publisher description.

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David Hajdu

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  • Release Date: 2008-03-18
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780374187675
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6033134 Very Good Fern Park 9-1-1 $7.99 Add to Cart

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