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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 709
EAN: 9780060937997
ISBN: 0060937998
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 704
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Sales Rank: 40041
Studio: Harper Perennial
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Product Description:
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. 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
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Rating:  -
A perfectly designed cover graces a very full and complete biography of perhaps America's greatest cartoonist, a book I knew I had to have the minute I saw it. A long-time fan of 'Peanuts' going back to the early '60s, I've always loved Schulz's work and wanted to know more about him.
Michalis' book gives you almost more than you want to know about Schulz, examining and analyzing virtually every detail of his life from birth to death. I learned some things I didn't know, including ... Read More
Rating:  -
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.
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Got this for my fiance who is an avid peanuts fan! It is such a great book! He loves it! Highly recommended!
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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: -
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
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