David Hajdu

[Dave Monroe]

David Hajdu
The Ten-Cent Plague
Tuesday, February 10 • 7:00 p.m. talk • Downer Ave.

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 it didn't take long for comics
to be beaten down by in mass bonfires, congressional hearings, and a
McCarthyish panic over their unmonitored and uncensored content. David
Hajdu explains the rise, fall, and rise again of comics in this
engrossing history now available in paperback.

http://www.schwartzbooks.com/events.php

For better or worse, however, I felt obligated to skip that for ...

http://www4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm/index.cfm?page=faithful

... but I kinda wish I'd've at least got someone to get my book autographed ...