David Hajdu
David Hajdu is the author of seven books, including Adrianne Geffel: A Fiction , and a three-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A musician and composer, he is the music critic for the Nation and a journalism professor at Columbia University. He lives in New York City.
David Hajdu is the author of seven books, including Adrianne Geffel: A Fiction , and a three-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A musician and composer, he is the music critic for the Nation and a journalism professor at Columbia University. He lives in New York City. See less
David Hajdu's Featured Books
David Hajdu book reviews
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
Sawdust without butter
David Hajdu took a fascinating topic, mistitled it and mistreated it. No question that the facts are there, he somehow figured out a way to make the story of comics in the 1950s boring. He actually ... Read More
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
Fascinating and disturbing
by Alissa, Jul 5, 2009
Hajdu's book chronicles the heyday of the comic book industry in America and how it came to a sudden end thanks to a witch-hunt style persecution in the 1950s. I was in the dark about this dark ... Read More
