The book "Everyday Americans" by Henry Seidel Canby is a collection of short stories that tells about the lives of ordinary Americans in different periods of the country's history. The author skilfully recreates the atmosphere of different eras, revealing to the reader the most diverse pictures of the lives of people from different social strata. Each story is marked by an accurate psychological analysis of the characters and a deep understanding of human nature. "Everyday Americans" is not just a collection of stories, but a kind of documentary essay about the diversity of human experience and the richness of American society.