The Ten-Cent Plague (Audiobook)

from Scarchin

Before reading this, I was completely unaware of the hysteria that surrounded comic books in the 40s and 50s. From pulpits, the Senate floor, and statehouses around the country, serious efforts were made to control what people could write, draw, and read - and often met with success. Book burning...

from ElizabethChapman

Whether you're familiar with the great crusade against comic books in the 1950s, or whether you've never heard peep about it, The Ten Cent Plague gives a revealing and intriguing look at the cogs and wheels of social repression and incipient revolt. It's tempting to tut tut the mid-century panic ...

from Girl_Detective

After reading, and being transported by, Michael Chabon's Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, I added David Hajdu's Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, to my reading list. Hajdu's coverage of comic-book fear and censorship to the 1940 and 1950's is well-re...

from Girl_Detective

After reading, and being transported by, Michael Chabon's Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, I added David Hajdu's Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, to my reading list. Hajdu's coverage of comic-book fear and censorship to the 1940 and 1950's is well-re...

from ElizabethChapman

Whether you're familiar with the great crusade against comic books in the 1950s, or whether you've never heard peep about it, The Ten Cent Plague gives a revealing and intriguing look at the cogs and wheels of social repression and incipient revolt. It's tempting to tut tut the mid-century panic ...