If you have completed the previous tasks, - well done, you should now have some grasp of what American politics involves! This optional task is as big or as little as you want it to be. There are so many American- politics linked books, you tubes, documentaries, films and box sets that these could basically take up the rest of your summer! I've made some suggestions below, but feel free to search your own Netflix/ Amazon Prime/ Skye (or whatever you have access to!) for what they have on offer...

Books - some suggestions

• Jim Acosta, The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America
• Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
• Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump inside the White House

Documentaries - some suggestions:

• The Obama Years
• Trump: An American Dream
• RBG
• Knock Down the House
• Becoming (MIchelle Obama documentary on Netflix)
• 13th (Netflix) - about the issue of race in America

Films - some suggestions:

• Lincoln
• Vice
• On the Basis of Sex
• Primary Colours
• Charlie Wilson's War
• All the President's Men
• Eyes on the Prize - about the Civil Rights freedom riders

Box sets - some suggestions:

• House of Cards
• The West Wing
• VEEP

Enjoy!