This cultural history is a "well-reported account of the men and women who created the comic book and the backlash of the 1950s that nearly destroyed it" (Entertainment Weekly).In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a ma...
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...