Title: The Americans (novel)
Content:  The Americans is a historical novel written by John Jakes and originally published in 1979, and is the eighth and last book in The Kent Family Chronicles. The novel intermingles fictional characters with historical events and figures to tell the story of the United States.
Title: The Americans (1961 TV series)
Content:  written by, among others, John Gay (screenwriter for the film Run Silent Run Deep and of many television adaptions of literary classics), William D. Gordon (who also acted in at least one episode), Andy Lewis (writer of the movie Klute), Carey Wilber (writer of the Star Trek episode "Space Seed"), and Pat Falken Smith (head writer in the 1970s and 1980s for the soap operas Days of Our Lives and General Hospital). Music for the series was created by composers Bernard Herrmann and Hugo Friedhofer. Henry Steele Commager was the historical consultant. A tie-in novel called The Americans, written by Donald Honig, was released in paperback by Popular Library publishers in 1961.
Title: The American People
Content:  The American People is a history textbook published by Pearson Education Incorporated. The editors of the text are Gary B. Nash of the University of California at Los Angeles, Julie Roy Jeffrey of Goucher College, John R. Howe of the University of Minnesota, Peter J. Frederick of Wabash College, Allen F. Davis of Temple University, and Allan M. Winkler of Miami University.
Title: The Americans (photography)
Content:  The Americans is a photographic book by Robert Frank which was highly influential in post-war American photography. It was first published in France in 1958, and the following year in the United States. The photographs were notable for their distanced view of both high and low strata of American society. The book as a whole created a complicated portrait of the period that was viewed as skeptical of contemporary values and evocative of ubiquitous loneliness. "Frank set out with his Guggenheim Grant to do something new and unconstrained by commercial diktats" and made "a now classic photography book in the iconoclastic spirit of the Beats".
Title: America and Americans
Content:   America and Americans is a 1966 collection of John Steinbeck's journalism. It was Steinbeck's last book.
Title: The Americans: The Democratic Experience
Content:  The Americans: The Democratic Experience is a 1973 book by American historian Daniel J. Boorstin. The book is the third in his American history trilogy, in which he argues that the physical environment of the New World shaped American society. In 1974 the book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History.
Title: Americans At War
Content: Edwin C. Bearss ; George H. W. Bush ; Dan Buzzo ; Joe Galloway ; Thomas Griffin ; Fred Haynes ; James L. Holloway III ; Lew Hopkins ; Leo P. Jarboe ; George Juskalian ; Dusty Kleiss ; James Leavelle ; Charles McGee ; Jerry Miller ; John Ripley (USMC) ; Don Stratton ; Kermit Tyler ; Wilbur Wright ; Paul A. Yost, Jr. ; Richard Zimmerman 
Title: The Americans (commentary)
Content: Byron MacGregor ; Gordon Sinclair ; Tex Ritter 
Title: The Americans (photography)
Content:  Frank's divergence from contemporary photographic standards gave him difficulty at first in securing an American publisher. Les Américains was first published on 15 May 1958 by Robert Delpire in Paris as part of its Encyclopédie Essentielle series. Writings by Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller and John Steinbeck were included, that Delpire positioned opposite Frank's photographs. Many thought that Frank's photos served more to illustrate the writing rather than the converse. The cover was decorated with a drawing by Saul Steinberg. In 1959, The Americans was finally published in the United States by Grove Press, with the text removed from the French edition due to concerns that it was too un-American in tone. The added introduction by Kerouac, along with simple 
Title: The Americans (commentary)
Content:  "The Americans" is a commentary by Canadian broadcaster Gordon Sinclair. Originally written for a regular broadcast on CFRB radio in Toronto on June 5, 1973, it became a media and public phenomenon. It was replayed several times a day by some United States radio stations and released as a hit audio recording in several forms. Ronald Reagan credited it for giving comfort to the United States in difficult times, and it was widely rediscovered and re-disseminated as the United States faced new crises in the 2000s. On June 5, Sinclair discussed some stories from the day's news. Widespread heavy tornado damage 

Question: Who is the author of The Americans?
Answer: John Jakes.
John William Jakes.
Jay Scotland.