In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first createdin the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books.
David Hajdu is the author of “Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn” and “Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina,” He is the music critic for “The New Republic,” and he teaches at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
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