Book Signing & Talk • Blake Scott Ball
Schedule
Sat Jun 19 2021 at 11:00 am
Location
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers | Tuscaloosa, AL
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To participate, there is a minimum of $1 to attend the event (https://bit.ly/3hOTJqz), or free with a purchase of the book featured (https://bit.ly/34e4Gdd). The cutoff time for tickets is six hours before the event.Join us as we welcome Blake Scott Ball to an in-person book talk with Ernest & Hadley Books! He will discuss his new book: Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts. The event starts at 11:00 AM CDT, and tickets are required to attend.
Despite--or 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 Peanuts gang.
In postwar America, there was no newspaper comic strip more recognizable than Charles Schulz's Peanuts. It was everywhere, not just in thousands of daily newspapers. For nearly fifty years, Peanuts 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.
Most people have come to associate Peanuts with the innocence of childhood, not the social and political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. Some have even argued that Peanuts was so beloved because it was apolitical. The truth, as Blake Scott Ball shows, is that Peanuts was very political. Whether it was the battles over the Vietnam War, racial integration, feminism, or the future of a nuclear world, Peanuts 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.
Charlie Brown's America 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 Peanuts gang.
Blake Scott Ball is Assistant Professor of History at Huntingdon College.
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Where is it happening?
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers, 1928 7th St., Tuscaloosa, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
