Ebook: If only they didn't speak English: adventures in America - the most foreign land on Earth
Author: Sopel Jon
- Tags: Civilization, Cultural studies, Elections & referenda, Manners and customs, POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Ideologies--Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Process--Leadership, POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Process--Political Parties, Political structures: democracy, Politics & government, Religion & politics, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural & Social, Travel, United States -- Civilization -- 21st century, United States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century, United States -- Descript
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Ebury Publishing
- City: United States
- Language: English
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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 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...