The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told -- until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu's remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority.In t...
A poignant and hilarious oral history of a (fictitious) musical phenomenon. Celebrated music critic and cultural historian David Hajdu unravels the mystery of a one-of-a-kind artist, a pianist with a rare neurological condition that enables her to...
Bert Williams—a Black man who performed in blackface while challenging the stereotypes of minstrel shows. Eva Tanguay—an entertainer with the signature song "I Don’t Care" who flouted the rules of propriety to redefine mod...