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American culture
Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.
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American culture
Jimmy Hoffa
Culture; American culture
(1913 – 1975)? Controversial president of the Teamsters Union from 1957 to 1971. Hoffa represented to many observers the danger inherent in the growing power of unions in the 1950s. Beloved by his ...
Richard M Nixon
Culture; American culture
(1913 – 1994) United States president, 1969–74, Richard Nixon began his political career as a conservative McCarthyite member of Congress from California who pursued Alger Hiss. He twice served as ...
Norman Borlaug
Culture; American culture
(born 1914) Winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in creating the Green Revolution in which limited acreage fed more and more people. Borlaug learned from his experiences of the Midwest ...
John Berryman
Culture; American culture
(1914 – 1972) Berryman is America’s master of homostrophy—our Yeats, except smarter, hornier and more drunk. (Yeats’ smooth stanzas cure, Berryman’s fracture; Yeats documents dissociation, while ...
Bernard Malamud
Culture; American culture
(1914 – 1986) Pulitzer-prize winning novelist and short-story author, born in Brooklyn, whose works chronicle many facets of the Jewish experience in America, as well as themes of memory justice, ...
Ralph Ellison
Culture; American culture
(1914 – 1994) Novelist best known for his 1952 novel, Invisible Man. Set between 1930 and 1950, and covering some of the events in Ellison’s own life, Invisible Man struck a chord with many African ...
Jonas Salk
Culture; American culture
(1914 – 1996) Doctor/medical researcher who led the team that discovered the first viable polio vaccine. Son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Salk became a public hero despite reserve within the wider ...
