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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
Frank Sinatra
Culture; American culture
(1915 – 1998) Frank Sinatra came to prominence in the 1940s as a crooner of mood music and went on to become perhaps the most famous and beloved singer in the history of American popular music, ...
Kirk and Michael Douglas
Culture; American culture
(born 1916) (Kirk) b. 1944 (Michael) Father and son stars. Kirk (born Issur Danielovitch) broke into movies through physical egocentric male roles, epitomized in his Oscar nominations as a boxer in ...
Eugene McCarthy
Culture; American culture
(born 1916) Minnesota member of Congress who launched a quixotic antiwar challenge to President Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 Democratic primaries that galvanized youthful anti-Vietnam movements. While ...
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Culture; American culture
(born 1917) Architect born in Canton, China, becoming a US citizen in 1954. His global works are characterized by both rational modern style and serene elegance in the interplay of planes of glass ...
Barry Commoner
Culture; American culture
(born 1917) Biologist whose initial concerns with cellular activity led him to become a public activist in postwar environmental issues, which he views as problems caused by human beings to be ...
Gwendolyn Brooks
Culture; American culture
(born 1917) Poet and novelist who became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950). Her rich poetic career has explored the African American vernacular, where race shapes ...
John F. Kennedy
Culture; American culture
(1917 – 1963) John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the first “celebrity president” (1961–3). After an undistinguished career in the House of Representatives and the Senate, Kennedy campaigned for president as ...
