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Audiobook Title:
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (Unabridged)
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (Unabridged)
By:
David Hajdu
Audio Length:
11 hours and 49 min.
Avg. Cust. Rating:
4.09 out of 5.0
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 bold, pulpy pages of comic books. The Ten-Cent Plague explores this cultural emergence and its fierce backlash while challenging common notions of the divide between "high" and "low" art.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 a series of televised Congressional hearings. Yet their creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority would have a lasting influence.
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