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The most important American artist of the second half of the 20th century was Charles Schulz. His comic strip debuted on October 2, 1950, and ended on February 13, 2000. Charlie Brown's America is written by Blake Scott Ball, an assistant professor of history at Huntington University in Montgomery, Alabama. You are listening to Benjamin Walker's theory of everything.

Cartoonist Charles Schulz wrote and drew Peanuts every day for half a century. In his new book Charlie Brown's America, Historian Blake Scott Ball uses the strip (and the fan mail archive at the Schulz museum) to illuminate the Wishy-Washy politics of Cold War America.