Book Kudos for Prof. Hajdu
Professor David Hajdu’s book, “The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America ,” has been selected by Amazon.com as #10 out of its 100 favorites of 2008. They also named it #1 best book of the year on arts and entertainment.
More on Prof. Hajdu: http://www.davidhajdu.com
Listen to an hour-long J-school webcast about the book and his classes:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ColumbiaJournalism/2008/04/23/MEET-THE-FACULTY-David-Hajdu
AN ASIDE: That webcast was recorded the day after the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, in April 2008, where Barack Obama came in second to Hillary Clinton (and had come in second several times in contests just before that one). As part of the introduction, I mentioned the fact that Hajdu’s previous books had been finalists for several awards. Always modest, he responded by saying, “I feel a little like the Barack Obama of nonfiction - I keep being a finalist and I don’t quite win. We are speaking today the day after the Pennsylvania primary… and the archive of that comment will probably elicit chuckles.” Now that his book has been named the #1 book of the year in arts and entertainment, he’s even more like Barack Obama than he realized.
- Dean Sree Sreenivasan
