In the spring of 1954, the book Seduction of the Innocent by Dr. Fredric Wertham and a Senate investigation into juvenile delinquency led to an anti-comics scare, the effects of which are still felt today.
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An entertainment journalist, he persuaded the publicity-shy director David Lean to let him write his story and died before seeing his final book, on Stephen Sondheim, published.