Peanuts and American Culture

Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz insisted good ol'' Charlie Brown and his friends were neither "great art" nor "significant." Yet Schulz''s acclaimed daily comic strip--syndicated in thousands of newspapers over five decades--brilliantly mirrored tensions in American society during the second half of the 20th century.

Focusing on the strip''s Cold War roots, this collection of new essays exp...