Another discovery of America

Alexander Pumpyansky. Roller coaster. From Martin Luther King to Barack Obama. From Ben Laden to James Bond. From Forbes to Playboy. M.: Publishing House "Planet", 2013. - 439 p.

Alexander Pumpyansky. Roller coaster. From Martin Luther King to Barack Obama. From Ben Laden to James Bond. From Forbes to Playboy. M.: Publishing House "Planet", 2013. - 439 p.

In the former times, the Americanism was the territory of relative freedom - what for journalists, for scientists. Well, for the audience who watched Valentine Zorin, not in order to get a portion of the propaganda brainwashing, but to look at the iron curtain with one eye. And for readers of newspapers, "swallowers of voids" who secretly dreamed of getting into the "world of clean -gan". I remember how I was shocked even in elementary school, when my friend, now the commentator of NTV+Sport, Mikhail Melnikov, said that his beloved country is the USA. The most likely opponent - and America?! And all only because his dad was an Americanist, a specialist in US foreign policy doctrines. The struggle with the likely opponent gave rise to love for the country - among the sobs, experts, diplomats, and scouts, of course, too ...

This sighted love shines reports - historical and modern, essays - domestic and analytical. States missed through man. And since a person, delicately speaking, is not empty, the reader has a chance to open America again.

“Half a century ago, when she fascinated me, America was all for us-an antipode, an enemy-opposite and at the same time a secret ideal,” writes Alexander Pumpyansky. This is a report, as they wrote before, in life.