 My suggestion for a book that shaped America is Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation. It's a great philosophical work that describes some of the nature of American media, American technology, and American institutions that remove and estrange some civilians from what Baudrillard deems the real or the substantive nature of the world. So yeah, Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation is certainly a book that has shaped America. Hi, my name is Oleg.