Snoopy Is the Hero in Vietnam: Ambivalence, Empathy, and Peanuts’ Vietnam War (2024)

Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts

Blake Scott Ball

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2021

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9780190090494

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9780190090463

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Ball, Blake Scott, 'Snoopy Is the Hero in Vietnam: Ambivalence, Empathy, and Peanuts’ Vietnam War', Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts (New York, 2021; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 May 2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190090463.003.0006, accessed 13 Apr. 2024.

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This chapter focuses on Snoopy, the character who was one of the more surprising critics of the American approach to the Vietnam War. In particular, Snoopy’s imaginary conflict as the World War I flying ace fighting the Red Baron became a unique commentary on the impact of war on the American homefront. The character also became a popular symbol among American servicemen, both to register their dedication to the fight and their frustrations with the war itself. For his part, Schulz mapped a path of support for troops, but disdain for the unpopular war and especially for the continuance of the draft.

Keywords: Charles Schulz, Peanuts, Snoopy, Vietnam War, draft, antiwar protest, counterculture, the sixties, World War I, Red Baron

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History of the Americas Social and Cultural History

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