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Charlie Brown's America : the popular politics of Peanuts / Blake Scott Ball.

Oxford Scholarship Online: History Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ball, Blake Scott, author.
Series:
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe), 1922-2000--Criticism and interpretation.
Schulz, Charles M.
Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe), 1922-2000. Peanuts.
Comic books, strips, etc--United States--Political aspects.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Place of Publication:
New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Summary:
Charles Schulz's Peanuts was an unexpectedly political comic strip. While many people have come to identify Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, and Snoopy with childhood and innocence, Peanuts regularly commented on the politics and social turmoil of Cold War America. From nuclear testing to the civil rights movement, from the Vietnam War to the feminist revolution, Peanuts was an unlikely medium for Americans of all stripes to debate the hopes and fears of the era. 'Charlie Brown's America' is the story of how the creation of one Midwestern man became one of the most influential pop-culture properties of the twentieth century and what its popularity reveals about the character of the United States.
Notes:
Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
0-19-009048-0
0-19-009049-9
0-19-009047-2
OCLC:
1240264049

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