Together with the author of this book, the reader will visit the USA, Germany, Japan and France. Interesting and unexpected meetings, heated debates, polemical conversations await him. The reader will see the life and family way of the "average" US citizen, in whose family the author happened to live, meet with the famous politician Averell Harriman, and visit the shores of the full-flowing Mississippi. The author talks about the military friendship of French and Soviet citizens in the past war, about the political everyday life of France, will acquaint with the current reality of Germany, his essays will lead the reader to the distant Japanese islands.