In this book the reader will find some impressions on the quality of life in the United Sates as experienced by a European visitor. Some contradictions are bound to became evident, such as poverty in an affluent society, a working society without a working class, the fear and the frustrated attempt to hide, if not exorcize, death.
In this perspective, Americans seem to be plagued by a constant parricide complex and by the need to be loved by all the other countries.
They desperately try to be seen or the most convincing historical example of «democracy» while economic and financial potentates are prone to manipulate a gullible public opinion. Perhaps, the «American dream» is bound to remain a dream although nobody will forget the decisive American contribution to defeat Nazism and Fascism in the second World War.

Franco Ferrarotti
FIRST-HAND IMPRESSIONS ON NORTH AMERICA BY A CURIOUS EUROPEAN VISITOR
Edizioni Solfanelli
[ISBN-978-88-3305-474-2]
Pagg. 112 - € 10,00