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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.56973
EAN: 9780060937997
Edition: Reprint
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
Studio: Harper Perennial
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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
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.
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I had initially taken a pass on reading this bio, remembering the negative comments from Schulz' family when it first came out. After seeing a positive review by John Updike, I decided to read it. The book is terrific in covering his life up to the point where his first marriage is falling apart. Yes, there's a lot of psychological speculation, but most of it seems to be on target. I thought there was too much detail about the affair that preceded his divorce. The 28 or so years from his second ... Read More
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Like most people, I grew up reading Peanuts comics and watching the holiday specials. I never knew anything about Schulz and the author here has written a very long and comprehensive boigraphy that tries to go into the mind behind the comic. Needless to say, Schulz was a complicated and seemingly contradictory person - very interesting indeed. He will be missed.
It doesn't seem like the kind of book that would be a page turner but I do remember reading this in a hotel room while on business ... Read More
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Michaelis has chosen to write a pseudo-psychological bio designed to paint Charles Schulz as an insecure man who lived a largely unhappy life. It's hard to imagine the creator of Peanuts having been so lacking in character and confidence. This book belongs more in the tabloid smear category than in the serious biography one. If you wanted to learn more about Charles Schulz, this isn't the place to go. Extremely disappointing.
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This bio is so fascinating. I hate that my audio book version does not show the comic strips. It is a wonderful biography of a man who has made us all so happy when he was so unhappy. Good stuff.
He covers the difficult married life. His life as first generation American.
Makes me want to have ALL of the Peanuts books.
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Picking up a biography on Charles Schulz, I expected to find a happy, well-adjusted, wise man who reflected the nature of the Peanuts comic strip. Instead, I found that the strip was darker, more complicated than I ever imagined and that Schulz moved through life feeling depressed, self-critical, and alone. The reality makes for a more interesting story and his story explains an awful lot about the strip. Schulz and Peanuts is a good read and will make a good drama on the big screen when enough years ... Read More
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