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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Montgomery Clift

Culture; American culture

(1920 – 1966) Beautiful, sexually ambiguous and hungry Clift embodied a troubled and introspective masculinity at odds with conventional representations of 1950s family and gender roles—a tension ...

Isaac Asimov

Culture; American culture

(1920 – 1992) Russian-born biochemistry professor at Boston University, Asimov became better known for his science fiction and popularizations of science, especially for young people. An ...

Charles Bukowski

Culture; American culture

(1920 – 1994) German-born American and Californian fiction writer, prose poet and misanthrope, Bukowski published more than forty books, many with small presses. Chronicler of the seamy his narrators ...

Timothy Leary

Culture; American culture

(1920 – 1996) Psychologist and apostle of the hallucinogen LSD (d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide). As a Harvard professor, influenced by Aldous Huxley, Leary tested LSD and psilocybin among criminals, ...

James Farmer

Culture; American culture

(1920 – 1999) Alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy and Bayard Rustin, Farmer is considered one of the principal leaders of the civil-rights movement. He helped found CORE in 1942 and ...

Mario Puzo

Culture; American culture

(1920 – 1999) Novelist, seen by many critics as responsible for killing Italian American literature with the publication of The Godfather (1969). New York-born and educated, Puzo published two ...

Murray Bookchin

Culture; American culture

(born 1921) Bookchin, an anarchist ecologist, worked through various leftist movements before finding the libertarian viewpoint most useful in critiquing American growth and proposing ecologically ...