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