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If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America

As the BBC's North America Editor Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock 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 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 Reflecting
on his journey across the continent to cover the most turbulent race in recent history Jon Sopel lifts a lid on the seething resentments profound anxieties and sheer rage that found its embodiment in a brash unpredictable and seemingly unstoppable figure In this fascinating insightful portrait of American life and politics Jon 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
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As the BBC's North America Editor Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world Jon has travelled the length & 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 & has even been described as a beauty' by none other than Donald Trump Through music film literature TV & even through the food we eat & the clothes that we wear we all have a highly developed sense of what America is & 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 & impatient for change Reflecting on his journey across the continent to cover the most turbulent race in recent history Jon Sopel lifts a lid on the seething resentments profound anxieties & sheer rage that found its embodiment in a brash unpredictable & seemingly unstoppable figure In this fascinating insightful portrait of American life & politics Jon 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 & increasingly perverse beliefs

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