If Only They Didn't Speak English

<p><i>'You see, if only they didn’t speak English in America, then we’d treat it as a foreign country – and probably understand it a lot better’</i><br><br><b>‘the sanest man in America’ – Bill Bryson<br>‘Jon Sopel nails it’ – Emily Maitlis<br><br>**With a brand new chapter, charting Trump's first year in power**</b><br><br>As the BBC’s North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the time it’s taken for a reality star to go from laughing stock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of: he has flown aboard Air Force One, interviewed President Obama and has even been described as ‘a beauty’ by none other than Donald Trump.<br><br>Through music, film, literature, TV and even through the food we eat and the clothes that we wear we all have a highly developed sense of what America is and through our shared, tangled history we claim a special relationship. But America today feels about as alien a country as you could imagine. It is fearful, angry and impatient for change.<br><br>In this fascinating, insightful portrait of American life and politics, Jon Sopel sets out to answer our questions about a country that once stood for the grandest of dreams, but which is now mired in a storm of political extremism, racial division and increasingly perverse beliefs.</p>