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: Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.56973
EAN: 9780066213934
ISBN: 0066213932
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: October 01, 2007
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Sales Rank: 54365
Studio: Harper



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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.



Amazon.com Review:
Amazon Significant Seven, October 2007: There's no book this year that made people's eyes light up when I told them about it more than Schulz and Peanuts, David Michaelis's new biography of cartoonist Charles Schulz. (And when they saw the obvious-but-brilliant Chip Kidd-designed cover, their eyes got even brighter.) Everyone, it seems, feels a personal connection to Peanuts (a name, by the way, that Schulz always hated), but few have a sense of the artist whose small troupe of big-headed characters still lives at the center of our imagination. If some mystery about the man still remains after reading Michaelis's sharp, engaging, and level-headed biography that's no fault of the biographer--in fact, it's to his credit. Michaelis parses Schulz's particular combination of Midwestern reserve and steely determination and the strip's still-surprising balance of exuberance and misery, and he reminds us what a colossal cultural force it became, especially in the 1960s. But even as he ingeniously finds sources for Schulz's four-panel vignettes in the events of his biography, he recognizes that the true, sometimes inexplicable drama of his life took place when he sat down every day for 50 years to trace Linus's wobbly strands of hair, fill in Snoopy's black nose, and, time and again, letter the words "Good grief." --Tom Nissley



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Sloooooow & boring
Good Grief! This book moves at glacial speed. By page 100, Sparky is still 14 years old. The author spends so much time on trivial stuff like describing the steps leading to the door of Sparky's high school. Richards uses 650 pages to do what could easily be done in 200. Don't waste your time on this one. Like Lucy pulling the football out from Charlie Brown's kick, this book is a huge letdown. Too bad -4 star ratings aren't available.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great book!
Got this for my fiance who is an avid peanuts fan! It is such a great book! He loves it! Highly recommended!


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - I Liked It and I Didn't Like It
I recently spotted this book in the library and decided to read it before buying a copy. With little or no knowledge of Schulz's personal life, it was interesting to read about his childhood, family life, his ambition to become a cartoonist, etc. But I didn't like it that the author dwelled over and over about Schulz's personal torments: he never got over his mother's death, everyone said he wouldn't amount to anything, he never thought anyone really liked him. Come on, Mr. Michaelis. We get ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Wonderful book
Even though I have read the reviews of the disappointed readers, I still think this book was well put together.
About 10 years ago, I saw a "Biography" type program on the life of Charles Schulz and it really portrayed him as very depressed. I've never seen the program again, so I think that this aspect of his personality is revealed often when interviewing the people who populated his life, therefore airing programs about him and releasing books hasn't interested the media and publishers. ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Probably the truth -- but not the whole truth, and not nothing but the truth
My guess -- and it's nothing more -- is that the truth lies somewhere between the claims of Schulz's children (who want to protect their late father) and Michaelis (who, as others have pointed out, seemed to first formulate his thesis, then write the book in such a way as to support it).
It's not surprising that Schulz was a flawed human. Who is not? Is it shocking that he and his wife grew apart? Or shocking that a wealthy celebrity would succumb to temptation and have an extra-marital affair? ... Read More


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