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Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

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…is best known for his Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (1987). He also cowrote The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (1988; with Joseph F. Kett and James Trefil) and was the main editor of A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (1989).
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