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Meet the Author: David Hajdu, Mon 5/19/2008

By Bert Gambini, WBFO

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wbfo/local-wbfo-708697.mp3

Buffalo, NY – David Hajdu - The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

Monday, May 19th at 7 p.m. Allen Hall Theatre, UB South Campus

Click here to buy the book.

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. 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.

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