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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
Gore Vidal (Eugene Luther)
Culture; American culture
(born 1925) Patrician chronicler, playwright and critic of the American century Vidal has skewered politics, sexuality and religion in novels and essays, identifying himself with the historical ...
Paul Newman
Culture; American culture
(born 1925) With actor-wife Joanne Woodward (1930–; m. 1958), Newman has carved out a distinguished role in American film and theater, where his own physical presence has been nuanced by humor and ...
Malcolm X
Culture; American culture
(1925 – 1965) Often seen as the counterpart to Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X became the inspiration for militant activists during the later stages of the Civil Rights movement, as it moved away ...
Sam Peckinpah
Culture; American culture
(1925 – 1984) Film and television director, writer and producer. Most famous for his revisionist western films of the 1960s and 1970s, Peckinpah was also a pioneer of the adult western television ...
Joseph Brodsky
Culture; American culture
(1940 – 1996) Russian-born Jewish poet who left the USSR in 1972 for exile after a life of protest and persecution. He became a US citizen in 1977 where he taught at Mount Holyoke College and also ...
Frank Zappa
Culture; American culture
(born 1940); d.1993 Social satirist, culture critic, cynic, parodic transgressor, musical innovator, prepostmodern American composer, monster guitarist and rock ’n’ roller. With the debut of “Freak ...
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Culture; American culture
(born 1941) Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Jackson became a member of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s inner-circle of advisers just prior to the latter’s assassination in 1968. Taking on the mantle of ...
