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David Hajdu has 3 past events. (show) David Hajdu "The Ten-Cent Plague" David Hajdu discusses The Ten-Cent Plague. 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. (BordersEvents)… (more)
David Hajdu David Hajdu discusses The Great Comic Book Scare. David Hajdu is the music critic for The New Republic and the author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña. He will be talking about his latest book, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America. (lampbane)… (more)
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Canonical name | | Legal name | | Other names | | Date of birth | | Date of death | | Burial location | | Gender | | Nationality | | Country (for map) | | Birthplace | | Place of death | | Places of residence | | Education | | Occupations | | Relationships | | Organizations | | Awards and honors | | Agents | | Short biography | DAVID HAJDU is the author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña. He teaches at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is the music critic for The New Republic.  | |
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