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If Only They Didn't Speak English
Notes From Trump's America
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"You see, if only they didn't speak English in America, then we'd treat it as a foreign country - and probably understand it better"--Page [4] of cover.
The definitive book on the making of Trump's America from the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel. Now updated with an exclusive new chapter.
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The definitive book on the making of Trump's America from the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel. Now updated with an exclusive new chapter.
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.
'The sanest man in America' - Bill Bryson
'Jon Sopel nails it' - Emily Maitlis
With a brand new chapter, charting Trump's first year in power
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.
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.
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.
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Jon Sopel's If Only They Didn't Speak English is praised for its insightful and entertaining examination of contemporary America. The book offers a perceptive account seen through the eyes of an informed observer, addressing complex issues such as the intersection of religion and politics. Sopel's analysis of US Presidential politics as a form of reality TV, highlighting the impact of fake news, is particularly engaging and thought-provoking.
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ISBN: 9781785942273
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 May 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: BBC Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 277g
Pages: 400
About the Author
Jon Sopel has been the BBC's North America Editor since 2014. He has covered the 2016 and 2020 elections and Trump's White House at first hand, reporting for the BBC across TV, radio and online. He also presents the highly successful Americast podcast with Emily Maitlis and Anthony Zurcher. As a member of the White House Press Corps, he has accompanied both President Obama and President Trump on Air Force One and interviewed President Obama at the White House. He has travelled extensively across the US and recently rode a Harley Davidson down the West Coast (that wasn't for work though). He lives in Washington and London. He is the author of If Only They Didn't Speak English- Notes from Trump's America and A Year at the Circus- Inside Trump's White House.
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