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The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

Fri, 04/25/2008 - 06:30 — birdie

Censorship is nothing new, and the quest to quash it continues. American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, ABFFE, chose an interesting book on the subject for the months of March and April.

Author David Hajdu's book, "The Ten Cent Plague" tells a chapter of American history when comic books were feared, hated and even burned during the 1950s. The book is reviewed in Entertainment Weekly where author Hajdu had been an editor.

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Fri, 04/25/2008 - 13:20 — Bibliofuture

NPR

NPR also has a piece on this.

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