<![CDATA[Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography]]>

false <![CDATA[Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography]]> 195218 4 Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us the first full-length biography of the brilliant, unseen man behind Peanuts: at once a creation story, a portrait of a native genius, and a chronicle contrasting the private man with the central role he played in shaping the national imagination. It is the most American of stories: How a barber's son grew up from modest beginnings to realize his dream of creating a newspaper comic strip. How he daringly chose themes never before attempted in mainstream cartoons—loneliness, isolation, melancholy, the unending search for love—always lightening the darker side with laughter and mingling the old-fashioned sweetness of childhood with a very adult and modern awareness of the bitterness of life. And how, using a lighthearted, loving touch, a crow-quill pen dipped in ink, and a cast of memorable characters, he portrayed the struggles that come with being awkward, imperfect, human. With Peanuts, Schulz profoundly influenced America in the second half of the twentieth century. But the humorous strip was anchored in the collective experience and hardships of the artist's generation—the generation that survived the Great Depression, liberated Europe and the Pacific, and came home to build the prosperous postwar world. Michaelis masterfully weaves Schulz's story with the cartoons that are so familiar to us, revealing how so much more of his life was part of the strip than we ever knew. Based on years of research, including exclusive interviews with the cartoonist's family, friends, and colleagues, unprecedented access to his studio and business archives, and new caches of personal letters and drawings, Schulz and Peanuts is the definitive epic biography of an American icon and the unforgettable characters he created. 188791 1 10 2007 Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography total:656|5:131|4:281|3:180|2:54|1:10| 656 2437 1438 225 4 7 false false Tue Jun 24 16:56:46 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 09:39:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 12:02:14 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 12:13:39 -0700 2008 Peanuts. If Michaelis is right, and his e...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 10:44:13 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 20:45:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 19:50:29 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 20:32:20 -0800 2008
On his honeymoon, ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Feb 14 16:53:13 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 16:43:19 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 16:52:48 -0800 2008 Peanuts is depressing on the whole. It is a world where you lose your voice as an adult, girls screw with boys and a beagle's dream world is much more thrilling than reality.

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the author goes out of his way to attribute this to the early loss of his mother and inability to accept the love other people give him, but there's only so much artistic temperament one can take while reading a 672 page book. also, he ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 10:50:51 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 10:56:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 18:47:34 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 15:23:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Mar 28 20:03:24 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 12:10:53 -0700 2009
...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:53:15 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:53:15 -0800 2009 David Michaelis's book, the first full-scale biography of Charles Schulz, is almost as universally adored as his subject's comic strips. The former biographer of N. C. Wyeth (whose son Andrew was a hero of Schulz's) takes on America's best-known cartoonist, drawing on exclusive access to Schulz's pa...

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The author exhausts his reader with useless facts that weighed down the story. Ofte...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 19:10:28 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 09:10:28 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 04 15:19:59 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 15:20:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 22:25:53 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 22:42:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 20:20:03 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 22:57:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 19:02:17 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 13:10:09 -0700 2009
At any rate, I mostly picked this up from the clearance shelf to send to my dad. Glad ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 23 16:08:20 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 16:10:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=195218