A reference guide to American culture, with more than 4000 entries providing a factual guide to America's history and folklore, slang and diversions, heroes and villains creating a "people's guide" to America's past and present.
Tad Tuleja (b. 1944) is a graduate of Yale, Cornell, and the University of Sussex. He has been a journalist, editor, and researcher, and has authored numerous short-entry reference books. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.