Everyone will be offended by this book: historians - because it is not historical; politics - because it is superficial; economists - because it is not scientific; political scientists - for the fact that all the conclusions in it are not correct... And everyone else - for everything else. Only readers will not be offended by this book - they will be interested in it. The famous TV presenter and writer Andrei Maksimov wrote, of course, a revolutionary book in many ways. The first “Mnogoslov”, which has already gone through three editions, made people think about themselves. “Verbose-2, or Notes of a Stunned Man” will make readers think about the world around them. “Mnogoslov-2” is filled with a huge number of amazing historical and modern facts that will be of interest to every inquisitive person. At the end of the book, the reader will find a reference chapter, from which anyone can find out the years of life of many of the greatest people in history, and also get a minimum information about them information.