Author: Blake Scott Ball Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190090480 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang. In postwar America, there was no newspaper comic strip more recognizable than Charles Schulz's Peanuts. It was everywhere, not just in thousands of daily newspapers. For nearly fifty years, Peanuts was a mainstay of American popular culture in television, movies, and merchandising, from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to the White House to the breakfast table. Most people have come to associate Peanuts with the innocence of childhood, not the social and political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. Some have even argued that Peanuts was so beloved because it was apolitical. The truth, as Blake Scott Ball shows, is that Peanuts was very political. Whether it was the battles over the Vietnam War, racial integration, feminism, or the future of a nuclear world, Peanuts was a daily conversation about very real hopes and fears and the political realities of the Cold War world. As thousands of fan letters, interviews, and behind-the-scenes documents reveal, Charles Schulz used his comic strip to project his ideas to a mass audience and comment on the rapidly changing politics of America. Charlie Brown's America covers all of these debates and much more in a historical journey through the tumultuous decades of the Cold War as seen through the eyes of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang.
Author: Charles M. Schulz Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 166
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Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang help present scientific facts about plants, geology, weather, climate, astronomy, and space travel.
Author: Charles M. Schulz Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1481435868 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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It's Halloween! Time for ghosts, ghouls, and... the Great Pumpkin? Linus is sure that this year the Great Pumpkin will finally appear. Join Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang for some spooky tricks and hilarious treats in this thirty-fifth anniversary adaptation of the television special!
Author: Charles Monroe Schulz Publisher: ISBN: 9781841611884 Category : Caricatures and cartoons Languages : en Pages : 160
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Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the whole "Peanuts" gang are featured in a brand-new, full-color collection of cartoons from the world's most popular comic strip.
Author: Charles Monroe Schulz Publisher: ISBN: Category : Animals Languages : en Pages : 145
Book Description
Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang help present hundreds of scientific facts about the animal kingdom in a question and answer format.
Author: Blake Scott Ball Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190090464 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
Charlie Brown's America tells the story of how and why the lovable kids and an adventurous beagle of Peanuts became the unlikely spokespeople for American life in the last half of the twentieth century.
Author: Blake Scott Ball
Author: Jeffrey H. Loria
Author: Charles M. Schulz
Author: Charles M. Schulz
Author: Charles M. Schulz
Author: Charles M. Schulz
Author: Charles M. Schulz
Author: Charles Monroe Schulz
Author: Charles Monroe Schulz
Author: Blake Scott Ball