Willard Thorp, in his new book, American Writing In The Twentieth Century, observes, quite validly it seems: `` Certain subjects are conspicuously absent or have been only lightly touched.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.

If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.

In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.

I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts, and I think Mr. Jameson Campaigne has done it well in his new book American Might And Soviet Myth.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

The film adaptation, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is based on the American edition of the book ( which Burgess considered to be " badly flawed ").

Her book titles, changed by American publishers, for example Ten Little Niggers to Ten Little Indians, were kept the same across the Atlantic, after bushels of fan mail.

On the debate of what it means to be disabled, American poet Joan Aleshire stated in the book Voices From the Edge:

* 1953 – James Vance, American comic book writer, author and playwright

Following his tour of the UK, he wrote about his experiences in a book entitled An American Four-in-hand in Britain.

Liberal in its use of statistics to make its arguments, the book argued his view that the American republican system of government was superior to the British monarchical system.

In 1941, interviews on American radio and favorable articles in US magazines, including a piece by Jack Alexander in The Saturday Evening Post, led to increased book sales and membership.

In his 1972 book American Criminal Justice, Jonathan D. Caplan comments on the Supreme Court decision, noting, " The Alford decision recognizes the plea-bargaining system, acknowledging that a man may maintain his innocence but still plead guilty in order to minimize his potential loss.

In the 2008 book The Star-Spangled Banner: The Making of an American Icon, Smithsonian experts point out that accounts of the event appealed to Americans eager for stories about the revolution and its heroes and heroines.

* 1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

They were furthered by American Spectator writer David Brock in his 1993 book The Real Anita Hill, though he later recanted the claims he had made, described his book as " character assassination ", and apologized to Hill.

He co-authored the 1991 book The Japan That Can Say No with politician Shintaro Ishihara, where they criticized American business practices and encouraged Japanese to take a more independent role in business and foreign affairs.

* 1971 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist ( d. 2008 )

In his book The American Language, H. L.

Law professor Ken Gromley's book The Death of American Virtue reveals that Clinton escaped a 1996 assassination attempt in the Philippines by terrorists working for Osama bin Laden.

The title of the album was apparently inspired by historian Eric Lott's book Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class, which was published in 1993.

Taj Hashmi discusses misogyny in relation to Muslim culture, and Bangladesh specifically, in the book Popular Islam and Misogyny: A Case Study of Bangladesh.

By the 1970s, the idea that the game had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular folklore: it was printed in the game's instructions and even in the 1974 book The Monopoly Book: Strategy and Tactics of the World's Most Popular Game by Maxine Brady.

* Popular book series such as Harry Potter, Twilight and Dan Brown's " Robert Langdon " ( consisting of The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol ) saw increased interest in various genres such as fantasy, romance, vampire fiction, and detective fiction, as well as young-adult fiction in general.

Similar to Recreative Science was the scientific journal titled Popular Science Review, created in 1862, which covered different fields of science by creating subsections titled ‘ Scientific Summary ’ or ‘ Quarterly Retrospect ,’ with book reviews and commentary on the latest scientific works and publications.

The book was one of the 11 books that Popular Mechanics published in the early to mid 1950s in their " Career " series.

Nicholas E. Tawa, in his 2005 book Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century: Styles and Singers and What They Said About America, included Beefheart among the prominent progressive rock musicians of the 1960s and 70s, while the Encyclopædia Britannica describes Beefheart's songs as conveying " deep distrust of modern civilization, a yearning for ecological balance, and that belief that all animals in the wild are far superior to human beings.

He has written a true crime book titled Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence.

* The chapter " Stormy Weather " in the book Stardust Melodies: The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs by Will Friedwald ( New York: Pantheon Books, 2002 ).

Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes and patterns, textures, banners with legends, and animations made by drawing a scene sequence in various pages of a book or notebook.

In 1836 she published her last book, Course of Popular Lectures.

The most widely played variation, as described in the book Popular Chess Variants by D. B.

In her essay Is Common Human Decency a Scarce Commodity in Popular Literature ?, Margaret Compton contrasts the ending of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold with the ending of Call for the Dead: " Le Carré's début book ends with Smiley feeling deeply guilty about having killed Dieter Frey, the idealistic East German spy who had been Smiley's agent and friend ( and, in effect, his adopted son ) during the Second World War.

Popular interest in the novel was renewed in the 1960s, primarily because it was seen as a counterculture book and because of its depiction of free love and explicit drug usage.

In a book written in 1977, the Eurocommunist leader Santiago Carrillo offered a positive assessment of the Popular Front.

Ary Vasconcelos tells us in his book Panorama da Musica Popular Brasileira that Nazareth was a " devoted family man who often gave the songs he composed titles in honor of his son, sometimes his wife, or another relative.

Also known as Los Macheteros (" the Machete Wielders ") and the " Puerto Rican Popular Army ," their active membership was calculated in 2006 by Prof. Michael González Cruz, in his book Nacionalismo Revolucionario Puertorriqueño, to be composed of approximately 5, 700 members with an additional unknown number of supporters, sympathizers, collaborators and informants throughout the U. S. and other countries.

His interest in science was sparked at the age of sixteen by a book of lectures on scientific topics titled Popular Lectures on Experimental Philosophy.

The event was popularized in 1841 by the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, written by British journalist Charles Mackay.

Matthew Engel, in his book Tickle the Public: One Hundred Years of the Popular Press ( Gollancz, 1996 ), says that the News of the World of the 1890s was " a very fine paper indeed ".

* The Origins of Popular Superstitions and Customs-T. Sharper Knowlson ( 1910 ), a book that listed many superstitions and customs that are still common today.

Frazer was recounting material already found in an 1883 French book entitled Quatorze superstitions populaires de la Gascogne (" Fourteen Popular Superstitions of Gascony "), by Jean-François Bladé.

In early editions of MacElhone's book, he cites the inventor as Pat MacGarry, " the Popular bar-tender at Buck's Club, London ", but in later editions he cites himself.

He also wrote the 1992 book Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values, a condemnation of violence in cinema.

* Bagtime ( Popular Library, 1977 ) ( collection of columns written with Paul Galloway, from the perspective of fictitious supermarket bagboy Mike Holiday, under which name the book was published ; also turned into a stage play and TV movie ) ISBN 0-445-04057-2

The Jedi Census phenomenon attracted the attention of sociologist of religion Adam Possamai who discusses it in his book Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-Real Testament.