{"product_id":"2940169719390","title":"The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Ten-Cent Plague\u003c\/em\u003e explores this cultural emergence and its fierce backlash while challenging common notions of the divide between ¿high¿ and ¿low¿ art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104646316272,"sku":"2940169719390","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169719390_p0.jpg?v=1769898703","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169719390","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}