{"product_id":"charlie-browns-america-the-popular-politics-of-peanuts-9780190090463","title":"Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts","description":"Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e gang. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn postwar America, there was no newspaper comic strip more recognizable than Charles Schulz's \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e. It was everywhere, not just in thousands of daily newspapers. For nearly fifty years, \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMost people have come to associate \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e with the innocence of childhood, not the social and political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. Some have even argued that \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e was so beloved because it was apolitical. The truth, as Blake Scott Ball shows, is that \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e was very political. Whether it was the battles over the Vietnam War, racial integration, feminism, or the future of a nuclear world, \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eCharlie Brown's America\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e gang.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlake Scott Ball\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of History at Huntingdon College.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50557503734034,"sku":"9780190090463","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_87c5dbbe-2d1c-4e9d-8d69-2bc91f808941.jpg?v=1763537650","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/charlie-browns-america-the-popular-politics-of-peanuts-9780190090463","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}