false 3095034 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255881109m/3095034.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255881109s/3095034.jpg In The Ten-Cent Plague, David Hadju reveals how comics, years before the rock and roll revolution, brought on a clash between postwar children and their prewar parents. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics became the targets of a raging generational culture divide. They were burned in public bonfires, outlawed in certain cities, and nearly destroyed by the televised hearings orchestrated by Congress. The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture and the divide between "high" and "low" art.

]]> 1870771 9 3271080 18 3 2008 The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America total:401|5:48|4:195|3:118|2:32|1:8| 401 1446 979 148 12298 3.72 948 222 25022665 147289 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.62 380 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 4 8 false Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 17:48:51 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 15:23:18 -0700 2008
Fifty years after the fact, it seems that most of us have at least a general idea of the c...more...]]> 23501147 970762 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 2 3 false Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 05:02:44 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 23:18:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 18000288 467338 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 4 3 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 18 06:08:20 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 20:26:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 47141711 2009363 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 4 2 false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 08:40:49 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 10:01:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 24255975 725162 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 2 2 false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 12:53:52 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 20:44:34 -0700 2008
It's not unusual to focus on a small group to make a larger historical point, but the details of the anti-comic book hysteria (and it did reach the point of mob panic)...more...]]> 22656819 126153 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 4 1 false Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 19:50:40 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 17:44:34 -0700 2008 Positively 4th Street, David Hajdu examined how four individuals (Bob Dylan, Richard Farina and Joan and Mimi Baez), or at least their images, embodied the contradictions of 1960s America. The Ten-Cent Plague focuses on an earlier, more forgotten battle in twentieth-century American culture wars:...more...]]> 22505195 873149 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 4 1 false Sun May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 16:02:46 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 16:14:51 -0700 2008
I enjoyed it. It was an excellent account of the conflict with comic books between about 1935 and 1952.

The author, David Hajdu, did a good job talking about the contexts and subtexts; he traced the line of important events well. He assigne...more...]]> 20499111 273523 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 3 1 false Thu Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 19:15:17 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 16:32:27 -0700 2008
The narrative takes place primarily in post WWII America. The political and social landscape is greatly influenced and shaped by America's emergence as a military and political world pow...more...]]> 19499090 817438 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 2 1 false Fri Apr 04 21:39:24 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 12:05:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 19384710 80243 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 4 1 false Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 12:44:33 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 12:44:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 38716113 1104532 3313129 1433210282 9781433210280 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255881104m/3313129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255881104s/3313129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3313129.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.80 5 In The Ten-Cent Plague, David Hajdu reveals how comics, years before the rock and roll revolution, brought on a clash between postwar children and their prewar parents. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics became the targets of a raging generational culture divide. They were burned in public bonfires, outlawed in certain cities, and nearly destroyed by the televised hearings orchestrated by Congress. The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture and the divide between "high" and "low" art.

]]> 2008 0 1 false Wed Nov 26 15:47:33 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 15:50:56 -0800 2008 25968371 179318 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 4 1 false Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 18:26:50 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 17:33:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 69225745 1387511 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 5 0 false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 10:38:03 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 11:13:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 55066410 1827671 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 5 0 false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 15:47:49 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 16:01:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 51562312 556887 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 4 0 false Sun Apr 05 05:44:15 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 05:56:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45783204 610692 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 4 1 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 18:49:14 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 19:14:43 -0800 2009 50689586 2169192 3865166 0312428235 9780312428235 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255881089m/3865166.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255881089s/3865166.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3865166.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.18 11 In the years between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s, American popular culture was first created 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.

</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>]]> 2008 3 0 false Sat Mar 28 01:56:16 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 18:17:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45663393 1891035 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 2 0 false Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 07 12:43:50 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 12:44:52 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 45724811 640919 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 4 0 false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 06:54:12 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 19:23:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 41659020 113980 1870771 0374187673 9780374187675 142 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114m/1870771.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234801114s/1870771.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1870771.The_Ten_Cent_Plague_The_Great_Comic_Book_Scare_and_How_It_Changed_America 3.61 401 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.

When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how—years before music—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.]]> 2008 3 0 false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 17:42:43 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 15:13:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3095034