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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9780312428235
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0312428235
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: February 03, 2009
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: February 03, 2009
Sales Rank: 38453
Studio: Picador
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In the years between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s, the popular culture of today was invented in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. But no sooner had comics emerged than they were beaten down by mass bonfires, congressional hearings, and a McCarthyish panic over their unmonitored and uncensored content. Esteemed critic David Hajdu vividly evokes the rise, fall, and rise again of comics in this engrossing history.
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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 entertainment, and, rather tragi-comically, as a target for censorship, couldn't be more compelling in anyone else's hands. In deft narrative strokes Hajdu creates a colorful, character-driven story of our first real--and lasting--counterculture (if the burgeoning popularity of graphic novels is any indication) and shows why we embrace it still.--Anne Bartholomew
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- Vivid history lessonThe Ten-Cent Plague does an incredible job of framing the context of the early 1950s and helps us to understand how it was possible for comic books to be seen as a threat big enough to warrant book burnings and Congressional witch hunts. Well told story.
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- The 10 Cent Plague history and society influence of comics The controversy over the damage that comic books can do to young impressionable minds in the 1950's is a very important historical counterpoint to know about. This is the age of McCarthy, schools teaching kids to drop and roll in the case of nuclear attack, Russia on the war path, Prague Spring, and a whole host of post world war two anxieties that gripped and held onto America throughout this decade. The attack on comics was no different, in the age of angst, comics started coming into their own ... Read More
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- OH! DO BEWARE OF MRS. GRUNDY!First, I have to admit that I am not a comic book expert or collector. I do have a modest collection of Black Hawk (Blackhawk) comics, but only because they were my favorites when I was a kid. I really did not read this work due to any overwhelming interest in comics. I did read them growing up and well remember the hysteria surrounding them in the 1950s. I will admit though that I did read quite a number of them during that time period. My parents liked peace and quiet and found that giving ... Read More
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- A real-life horror storyThe history of scapegoating in the 20th-century United States is a long one, with public fears about menaces real or imagined directed at alleged causes ranging from drugs to TV to rock and rap music, accompanied by reams of pontificating and propaganda that tend to seem pretty silly in hindsight (Reefer Madness, anyone?). In The Ten-Cent Plague, David Hajdu tells the story of one particularly dumbfounding example of mass hysteria that gripped the country in the late 1940's and early 1950's in the ... Read More
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- As engrossing as any four-star comic-bookDavid Hajdu's "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America" begins with the sad story of Janice Valleau Winkleman, who retired to Florida after losing the comic-book-artist job she had begun at age 19 and worked for over a decade.
Winkleman was among hundreds of such artists -- mostly social misfits who found a common bond in a new art form, toiled for millions of enthralled readers, and then were hounded out of their jobs by high-minded hypocrites.
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