American culture

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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Humphrey Bogart

Culture; American culture

(1899 – 1957) Actor and symbol. Forty years after his death he is still identified as one of Hollywood’s greatest male stars. Where Gary Cooper was reluctant to be involved, and Jimmy Stewart shy ...

Ernest Miller Hemingway

Culture; American culture

(1899 – 1961) Nobel and Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist, correspondent and essayist whose laconic prose with its subsumed emotions emphasizes a virile masculinity of struggle that also permeated the ...

Vladimir Nabokov

Culture; American culture

(1899 – 1977) Nabokov combined formidable literary talent, an incisive intellect and a cosmopolitan familiarity with Western culture to produce some of the most influential fiction of the twentieth ...

Alfred Hitchcock

Culture; American culture

(1899 – 1980) British-born director whose fifty-three films successfully straddled the worlds of art house and boxoffice yield. His first Hollywood production, Rebecca (1940), won the 1940 Academy ...

Fred Astaire

Culture; American culture

(1899 – 1987) Ballroom dancer, actor and singer (well, talker) who glided through decades of elegant musicals and movies with his sister Adele, long-time partner Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse, among ...

Fred Austerlitz

Culture; American culture

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Culture; American culture

(1900 – 1965) Urbane intellectual and liberal Democratic candidate for the presidency. After an Ivy League education and foreign service career, Stevenson became governor of his home state of ...