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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
Betty Friedan
Culture; American culture
(born 1921) In 1963 Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique. Interviewing hundreds of American housewives and mothers, Friedan found deep dissatisfaction among many. An instant bestseller, the ...
Jesse Helms
Culture; American culture
(born 1921) Republican senior senator of North Carolina, Helms was elected to the US Senate in 1972. A staunch fiscal and social conservative who is considered an extremist by his opponents, Helms ...
Sid Caesar
Culture; American culture
(born 1922) Comedian best known for sketches that defined the humor of television’s golden age. Creative, satirical and often truly bizarre, Caesar created memorable sketches for the NBC showcase ...
Norman Lear
Culture; American culture
(born 1922) Liberal television writer and producer and political activist. Lear’s shows, sometimes adapted from British models, raised questions of race, class and gender in ways that transformed not ...
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Culture; American culture
(born 1922) Writer whose continual mixture of broad American incisive satire and apocalyptic warning has made him a guru to generations of youths since the 1960s. Vonnegut’s novels mingle techniques ...
Jack Kerouac
Culture; American culture
(1922 – 1969) Poet and chronicler of the beat generation, a term whose meaning he defined. Best known for On the Road (1957), a beat pilgrimage across America, he later wrote The Dharma Bums (1958), ...
Judy Garland
Culture; American culture
(1922 – 1969) Singer and actor. Garland became a “child” sensation with The Wizard of Oz (1939) and her Andy Hardy movies with Mickey Rooney. Her vibrant, expressive voice outlasted her movie career ...