If Only They Didn't Speak English

<p><i>'You see if only they didn&#146;t speak English in America then we&#146;d treat it as a foreign country &#150; and probably understand it a lot better&#146;</i><br><br><b>&#145;the sanest man in America&#146; &#150; Bill Bryson<br>&#145;Jon Sopel nails it&#146; &#150; Emily Maitlis<br><br>**With a brand new chapter charting Trump's first year in power**</b><br><br>As the BBC&#146;s North America Editor Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the time it&#146;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 &#145;a beauty&#146; 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>