Twilight of America. Efimov I.

The book of Igor Efimov, a famous writer and philosopher who emigrated in the United States almost forty years ago, talks about those aspects of the life of American society that are not visible to an extraneous look. It is often that the facade of a successful state, claiming the role of the only pole of the political life of the planet, lies the most difficult problems and insoluble contradictions. The author’s view of internal processes in American society is unique in its own way: on the one hand, this is a look from the inside, and on the other, the look is detached, capable of balanced and even unpleasant judgments. The author consistently considers the most different aspects of social life - school, family, army, courts, advocacy, diplomacy, etc. - and draws disappointing conclusions. The root of the problems is in the departure of American democracy from their generic principles, seizure and manipulation of public opinion from influential groups of lawyers, politicians and representatives of corporations.

The book will be extremely useful to the Russian reader not only because he will introduce him to the current the American agenda of the day will allow you to compare it with the domestic, but also because it is able to warn against the mistakes that were made in the United States and which Russian society can still avoid.