The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
 

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

by David Hajdu

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... (read more)

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