About the book: 1982 / The book of essays by the famous international publicist Vladimir Nikolaev talks about the life and customs, morality and inner world of Americans. The author traveled a lot around the United States, lived in families, student dormitories, on farms, and over twenty years he published thirteen books about America (essays, pamphlets, feuilletons). The book takes an interesting perspective on issues such as the impact of a complex tax system on society, the American nation as a conglomerate of many nationalities, the legal system and citizens' rights, farm life, and others. The intricacies of the military-industrial complex are examined in detail, the secrets of visible and invisible power in the United States are revealed, and the huge propaganda machine is described in detail. The author's hypothesis about who killed President Kennedy is also of interest. The book attracts the author’s personal view of life in the USA, his non-standard approach to many facts, he reveals a lot of new things in phenomena that seem to be already well known.