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American Me is a 1992 American crime drama film produced and directed by Edward James Olmos, in his directorial debut, from a screenplay by Floyd Mutrux and Desmond Nakano. [3] Olmos stars as Montoya Santana, who is loosely based on Mexican Mafia boss Rodolfo Cadena . [ 4 ]
The Painted Bird is a 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński that describes World War II as seen by a boy, considered a "Gypsy or Jewish stray," [1] wandering about small villages scattered around an unspecified country in Central or Eastern Europe (usually assumed to be Poland).
Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. [1] Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university.
Vaccine developers profiled in the book include Jonas Salk (p. 188) and Maurice Hilleman (p. 238). Allen, later in the book, describes the controversy over vaccines and autism and the founding of SafeMinds, writing, "The vaccines-cause-autism mindset was the product of a set of assumptions that were impossible to completely prove or disprove."
The thesis of Arming America is that gun culture in the United States did not have roots in the colonial and early national period but arose during the 1850s and 1860s. The book argues that guns were uncommon during peacetime in the United States during the colonial, early national, and antebellum periods, that guns were seldom used then and that the average American's proficiency in use of ...
Cartoonist Barry Blitt has faced controversy in the past, most notably for his cover for The New Yorker in 2008, which depicted Michelle and Barack Obama standing in the Oval Office with ...
Writing in The New York Times Book Review Eric Foner concluded the book's underlying argument was persuasive even though some of its elements were "not entirely pulled together," [5] and Kirkus Reviews found it to be a "dense, myth-busting work" that presents "a complicated story involving staggering scholarship that adds greatly to our understanding of the history of the United States. [6]
called me and the Studio’s graphics leader, Bob Moore, to his office. “We have to let the media, our fans, and the enter - tainment industry know that as great a talent as Walt is, he’s not the only creative person at Disney,” Card told us. “Let’s use the annual report to start the dialogue.” Bob Moore and I were good soldiers.