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Charles Schulz's family isn't happy with how an acclaimed new biography portrays the Peanuts creator. The cartoonist's relatives helped with research for David Michaelis' book Schulz and Peanuts, but they now say it focuses too much on Schulz's melancholy side and ignores his strengths as a family man.