The Journal of American Culture, September 1st, 2006
Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture Bart Beaty. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Anyone speculating about the most influential psychiatrist of twentieth-century America must consider Dr. Fredric Wertham (1895-1981). To those whose knowledge is limited to his anti-comics crusade against comic books, such a judgment would be startling. This book-length intellectual biography, a first, aims to rescue Wertham's reputation by recollecting his intellectual and social achievements while ascribing to him some sophistication in methodology-qualities missed when one focu...
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