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Newspapers changes to the 4column, tabloid style paper. Two newspaper magnates, Randolph and Pulitzer, started adding new sections: sports and cartoos strips. The Christian Science Monitor was founded in 1908.
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Following WW1, "the war to end all wars," talented young authors, some expatriates in France, wrote about their feelings of disillusionment and alienation. Writers began to write about sexuality
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Many of America´s most distinguished writers produced works of fiction. Some of the novels of this period explored what was happening in the country during the Great Depression.
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Famous novel by Steinbeck which displayes Oklahoma family who had lost its farm to the drought of the Dust Bowl -
Appearance of the first inexpensive paperback. Book clubs proliferated, and book sales went from one million to over 20 million volumes a year. Thus, it itook a while for the horror of war and the atrocities of prejudice to come forth.
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written by Shirley Jackson to demonstrate how perfectly normal, otherwise nice people, could allow something like the Holocaust. -
Cold War period, literature reflected the conflict of self-satisfaction and cultural self-doubt conformity and the true worth of American values.
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Written by Salinger portraying men who fail in the struggle to succeed. -
This decade is also marked by freedom initiatives: Civil Right Movement, Black Power, women´s liberation, antiwar protests and gay rights. Literature reflected what was happening in the political arena and social issues. All works were partial and weighted with the author´s conscious and unconsious thoughts and perceptions.
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Edward Albee produced a series of nontraditional psychological works -
Major trends included a growing disillusionment, concerning the government, advances in civil rights, increased influene of woman´s movement, a heightened concern for the environment, and increased space exploration. In Literature, old currents remained but the force behind pure experimentation dwindled, concerns with setting, character and themes associated with realism returned. Celebration of diversity as a cultural reality, bringing authors from different contexts and nationalities.
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One of the strongest literary voices to emerge from this decade, who examined the Black American experience as never before. -
Became the Me! Me! Me! generation of status seekers. Video games, minivans, camcoders, and talk shows became part of life. Drama shifted from realism to more cinematic, kinetic techniques. Minority writing become a major fixture on the American literary landscape.
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One of the most popular writers of the decade -
The electronic age. The world wide web was born in 1992 changing the way we communicate, spend our money (online gambling, stores). More multicultural writers on the literature field.
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