Charlie Brown's America

Charlie Brown's America

Author: Blake Scott Ball

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0190090480

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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.


You're in Love, Charlie Brown

You're in Love, Charlie Brown

Author: Charles M. Schulz

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 1972-08-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780394830445

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Charlie Brown has started feeling very strange and Linus decides that Charlie must be in love


You Can't Win, Charlie Brown

You Can't Win, Charlie Brown

Author: Charles M. Schulz

Publisher: Owl Books

Published: 1994-07

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780805033090

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Early Peanuts comic strips feature Linus writing to the Great Pumpkin, Lucy offering psychiatric advice, Charlie Brown celebrating Christmas, and Linus wearing glasses


We Love You, Charlie Freeman

We Love You, Charlie Freeman

Author: Kaitlyn Greenidge

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2017-01-31

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1616206446

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A FINALIST FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE 2017 YOUNG LIONS AWARD “A terrifically auspicious debut.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Smart, timely and powerful . . . A rich examination of America’s treatment of race, and the ways we attempt to discuss and confront it today.” —The Huffington Post The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been invited to the Toneybee Institute to participate in a research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by his mother. The Freemans were selected because they know sign language; they are supposed to teach it to Charlie and welcome him as a member of their family. But when Charlotte discovers the truth about the institute’s history of questionable studies, the secrets of the past invade the present in devious ways. The power of this shattering novel resides in Greenidge’s undeniable storytelling talents. What appears to be a story of mothers and daughters, of sisterhood put to the test, of adolescent love and grown-up misconduct, and of history’s long reach, becomes a provocative and compelling exploration of America’s failure to find a language to talk about race. “A magnificently textured, vital, visceral feat of storytelling . . . [by] a sharp, poignant, extraordinary new voice of American literature.” —Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife


Who Cares, Charlie Brown?

Who Cares, Charlie Brown?

Author: Charles M. Schulz

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-09-29

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1621573621

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Charlie Brown and his friends are hitting the baseball field for a long day of fun in the sun! But the game turns into something more when the Peanuts gang starts learning about the many men and women who changed the course of history by helping their fellow humans. This touching ode to some of the world’s great humanitarian heroes—including one forgotten hero who helped little kids!—will warm hearts and inspire. Book includes presentations on great humanitarian heroes and activity pages.


Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown!

Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown!

Author: Charles Monroe Schulz

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781518276354

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"It's a beautiful day to fly a kite, but as soon as Charlie Brown's kite catches a nice gust of wind ... it gets eaten up by the kite-eating tree! Good grief. When he tries again, the tree eats that kite too. Charlie Brown and his friends refuse to let the kite-eating tree win, but what can they do?"--Page 4 of cover.