{"product_id":"book-ewd7","title":"Charlie Brown's America","description":"In postwar America, there was no newspaper comic strip more recognizable than Charles Schulz's \u003ci\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/i\u003e. It was everywhere, not just in thousands of daily newspapers. For nearly fifty years, \u003ci\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost people have come to associate \u003ci\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/i\u003e with the innocence of childhood, not the social and political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. Some have even argued that \u003ci\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/i\u003e was so beloved because it was apolitical. The truth, as Blake Scott Ball shows, is that \u003ci\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/i\u003e was very political. Whether it was the battles over the Vietnam War, racial integration, feminism, or the future of a nuclear world, \u003ci\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlie Brown's America\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/i\u003e gang.","brand":"Highbridge Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49364022100272,"sku":"BDewd7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49364022329648,"sku":"ZEewd7","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49364022395184,"sku":"ZMewd7","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ewd7-cover.jpg?v=1765861438","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ewd7","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}