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Hank Kennedy
Long before I ever read the Communist Manifesto, “the Soul of Man Under Socialism,” or A Peoples History of the United States, Mad magazine helped make me a radical. Although Mad had no positive political program to offer, it served as a useful inoculation. Mad encouraged me, as it did for many readers, to see…
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Maus in Tennessee: A Censor’s Tale
What’s the matter with Tennessee? To an observer, it looks like the Volunteer State has something in the water making its public officials anti-comics. In the 1950s, Tennessee’s Senator Estes Kefauver chaired the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency which investigated the comic industry. Kefauver, who had previously led a Senate investigation into organized crime, was…
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