About the book: 1967 / Lynching enjoys the most sinister reputation. However, its historical past requires a different assessment. According to the author, lynching is a product not of the slave-owning South, as is commonly believed, but of the era of the “Wild West,” when the North American continent was the scene of mass farmer colonization. At the time, lynching was a weapon of farmer dictatorship directed against large land speculators and government officials. This is how the well-known petty-bourgeois tradition of arbitrariness, or arbitrariness, developed among the American people. Based on an analysis of the “American character” and the reasons that led to its crisis in the 20th century, the author explains the transformation that this tradition has undergone in modern times. The originality of the national consciousness of Americans and American bourgeois democracy, conformism and American fascism, the nature of racial conflicts and the essence of the Yankee as a modern type of bourgeois personality - these are the acute problems that form the subject of the historical and sociological analysis made in the book. The method of scientific and artistic description makes it accessible not only to specialists, but also to a wide range of readers..