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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
Jay McInerney
Culture; American culture
(born 1955) Bright Lights, Big City (1984) identified the Tennessee author with New York City, NY’s literary brat pack, including Bret Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz, and their Generation-X ...
John Grisham
Culture; American culture
(born 1955) One of the most popular and bestselling authors of the late twentieth and early twentyfirst centuries, Grisham has mastered the intricate legal maneuvering that drives all of his plots. ...
Tom Hanks
Culture; American culture
(born 1956) Actor/director: Gary Cooper for the 1990s. Hanks’ often childlike comedic persona in the 1980s (Big, 1988) gave way to a “man-next-door” “Americanness” in 1990s movies about baseball, ...
Anita Hill
Culture; American culture
(born 1956) Law professor. In 1991 Hill sparked a national debate on sexual harassment in the workplace when she leveled harassment charges against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas at his ...
Gloria Estefan
Culture; American culture
(born 1957) Cuban American singer whose appeal and musical style cut across lingual boundaries and musical genre definitions. In 1975 she joined the group Miami Sound Machine, headed by her now ...
Spike Lee
Culture; American culture
(born 1957) Forerunner of a new generation of film-school trained black directors, Lee has expanded his films about race, class and gender into a more complex and enduring career with surprising ...
Joel and Ethan Coen
Culture; American culture
(born 1958) (both) With Joel as the director-screenwriter and Ethan as the producer-screenwriter, the brothers have a uniquely skewed vision of ordinary life which permeates and complicates otherwise ...
