The new book by a world-famous political scientist, whose opinion is listened to by the leadership of major states, President of the Center on Global Interests in Washington Nikolai Zlobin, is an attempt for the first time to understand the way of thinking and basic values shared by the majority of US residents, to understand how and by whom the formation of American character, what are the main complexes and phobias inherent in Americans, what they believe and what they do not believe, how they look at themselves, their country and the whole world, and most importantly, how all this is reflected in US policy. Another very fascinating volume of the encyclopedia of American life from Zlobin, telling how the population of the world’s only superpower lives and breathes. This book is for those who are interested in world politics, history, psychology, culture, and for those who are simply interested in America.