"from the American perspective manifestos are not something we really see anymore" I decided to have a look at google ngrams for the word manifesto in the Amer

"from the American perspective manifestos are not something we really see anymore" I decided to have a look at google ngrams for the word manifesto in the American English corpus: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=manifesto&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=17&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmanifesto%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=manifesto&year... The clear peaks for 1918 and 1932 are pretty impressive, but after the 1968 everest, the concept nosedives till you get to the oppressively featureless plain starting, amusingly, at 1984. Now there is platform instead. Which has none of the pesky connotations of promise that manifesto tended to carry. edit - British English, on the other hand, still loves the idea, though it has taken a knock in the last ten years. Our correlating peaks were 1915, 1940 and 1967, but the idea recovered here after 1973 and enjoyed strength during the 80s and 90s, instead of falling off a cliff. - https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=manifesto&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=18&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmanifesto%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=manifesto&year...