Biographer, Historian and A.J. Jacobs Index to Mr. Media Interviews

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BIOGRAPHER, HISTORIAN and A.J. JACOBS INTERVIEWS

Mac Montandon
author, “Jetpack Dreams”


Ashley Kahn
author, “Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece”


David Sterritt
author, “The B List”


Harvey Frommer
Remembering Yankee Stadium author


Peter Golenbock
In the Country of Brooklyn, Tony Curtis author


Legs McNeil
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored History of the Porn Film Industry, Punk Magazine


Andrea Kay
career consultant, author, “Work’s a Bitch,” “Life’s a Bitch”


Cheryl Crane
daughter of actress Lana Turner, author of Lana: The Memories, The Myths, The Movies, Detour: A Hollywood Story


Paul Dergarabedian
movie box office guru, Hollywood.com; founder, Media By Numbers


Bob Hofler
editor, Variety; author, “Variety’s The Movie That Changed My Life”


David Wild
author, He Is…I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond, Friends… ‘til the End: The One with All Ten Years, And the Grammy Goes To…, The Showrunners, Friends: The Official Companion Book, Heart Full of Soul (Taylor Hicks autobiography)


Lia Romeo, Nick Romeo
co-authors, “11,002 Things to be Miserable About”


David Sterritt
co-author, The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love


David Michaelis
Schulz and Peanuts


Bob Eckstein
author, The History of the Snowman


Brian Michael Jenkins
Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? terrorism expert and author


Marty Beckerman
Dumbocracy author


Craig Glazer
author , The King of Sting


Todd DePastino
Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front, Willie & Joe: The WWII Years


David Andelman
A Shattered Peace


Marlise Kast
Tabloid Prodigy, Globe magazine


Chuck Workman and Stephen J. Kern
In Search of Kennedy, Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol, The Source


Larry "Ratso" Sloman
The Secret Life of Houdini


Pete Williams
The Draft


Richard Weiner
Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications


Will Russell and Scott Stuffitt
I'm A Lebowski, You're A Lebowski


Brian Alexander
America Unzipped


A.J. Jacobs
The Year of Living Biblically


David Hajdu
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare


Philip Shenon
The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation






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David Hajdu, THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE author: Mr. Media Audio Interview

Run for your lives!

Hide the women and children!

There’s a Ten-Cent Plague loose upon this fine land!

My guest today, David Hajdu, is the author of a new book that – at the very least – probably has the best title of the year, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America.

In this book, Hajdu looks back at a hysterical period in American history – one of many, to be sure – when comic books were considered such a threat to our way of life that the industry nearly vanished.

Hajdu is also 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 teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism with another friend of the Mr. Media podcast, Sree Sreenivasan – and is the music critic for The New Republic.

You can LISTEN to this interview by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player below!

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THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE! Author David Hajdu Live on Mr. Media, Friday, May 16, 1 p.m. EST

David Hajdu, author of the bestseller The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, will be the live guest on the Mr. Media podcast on Friday, May 16 at 1 p.m. EST.

The one-hour show is broadcast live over BlogTalkRadio.com and takes listener calls. There is also an accompanying web chat.

Listeners can catch the interview live - or later as a downloadable archive - by clicking here!