Jan. 10.
This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the
historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan.
It is the story of the two Cleveland teenagers who invented Superman as
a defender of the little guy and the New York wheeler-dealers who made
him a major media force. It is the story Ku Klux Klan's development from
a club to a huge money-making machine powered by the powers of fear and
hate and of the folklorist who--along with many other activists-- took
on the Klan by wielding the power of words. Above all, it tells the
story of Superman himself--a modern mythical hero and an embodiment of
the cultural reality of his times--from the Great Depression to the
present.
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