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Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
Husband and wife televangelist team Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker became a prominent part of American popular culture in the late 1980s when their vast...
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Creationism
Creationism is a Christian doctrine holding that the world and the living things in it--human beings in particular--were created by God. There have...
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The Draft
From America's founding through the twentieth century, the draft has been a familiar way to ensure the country's safety in terms of the numbers of...
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Dave Barry
Dave Barry, a bestselling author and a syndicated humor columnist based in Miami, is a significant player in the great American tradition of humor...
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P. J. O'Rourke
In 1998, satirist P. J. O'Rourke announced his intention to write a memoir. The most serious problem with this idea, he wrote, is "that I haven't...
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Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss's life up to 1948 seemed, on the surface, to be an American success story. He attended Johns Hopkins and Harvard Law School and was a...
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American Mercury
For about a decade the American Mercury magazine served as an irreverent cultural critic. The magazine's distinctive style came from the...
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Tokyo Rose
During the fight with Japan in World War II, Allied (mostly American) fighting men in the Pacific were assailed with Japanese radio propaganda...
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Mike Royko
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Mike Royko was born on September 19, 1932 in Chicago, the city in which he lived most of his life, and it was as...
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Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer, the mathematician/balladeer, grew up in New York city. He received piano lessons, learning classical music. At his request, his parents...
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