Charlie Brown's America: the Popular Politics of Peanuts

Professor Buzzkill History Podcast

English - June 20, 2023 07:05 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 180 ratings
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Professor Blake Scott Ball discusses his new book on the history of the Peanuts comic strip! Despite--or perhaps 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 whole Peanuts gang. Encore Episode.