God's Hand on America

<b>The national radio host and bestselling author of <i>The American Miracle</i> reveals the happy accidents bizarre coincidences and flat-out miracles that continue to shape America&#146;s destiny.</b><br><br> <b>&#147;<b>A hopeful message for our troubled times . . . Michael Medved has an eye for a story and a preternatural gift for telling it in beguiling ways.&#148;&#151;Joseph J. Ellis Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award&#150;winning author of <i>Founding Brothers</i></b></b><br><br> <b>Has God withdrawn his special blessing from the United States?</b> Americans ponder that painful question in troubled times as we did during the devastation of the Civil War and after the assassinations of the &#146;60s and as we do in our present polarization. Yet somehow&#151;on battlefields across western wilderness and in raucous convention halls&#151;astounding events have reliably advanced America restoring faith in the Republic&#146;s providential protection. &#160;<br><br>In this provocative historical narrative Michael Medved brings to life ten haunting tales that reveal this purposeful pattern including: <br><br> &#149; A near-fatal carriage accident forces Lincoln&#146;s secretary of state into a canvas-and-steel neck brace that protects him from a would-be assassin&#146;s knife thrusts allowing him two years later to acquire Alaska for the United States. <br> &#149; A sudden tidal wave of Russian Jewish immigration be&#173;ginning in 1881 coincides with America&#146;s rise to world leadership fulfilling a biblical promise that those bless&#173;ing Abraham&#146;s children will themselves be blessed. <br> &#149; Campaigning for president Theodore Roosevelt takes a bullet in the chest but a folded speech in his jacket pocket slows its progress and saves his life. <br> &#149; At the Battle of Midway U.S. planes get lost over empty ocean and then miraculously reconnect for five minutes of dive-bombing that wrecks Japan&#146;s fleet convincing even enemy commanders that higher powers intervened against them. <br> &#149; A behind-the-scenes &#147;conspiracy of the pure of heart&#148; by Democratic leaders forces a gravely ill FDR to replace his sitting vice president&#151;an unstable Stalinist&#151;with future White House great Harry Truman. <br><br> These and other little-known stories build on themes of <i>The American Miracle </i>Medved&#146;s bestseller about America&#146;s remarkable rise. The confident heroes and stubborn misfits in these pages shared a common faith in a master plan which continues to unfold in our time. <i>God&#146;s Hand on America </i>con&#173;firms that the founders were right about America&#146;s destiny to lead and enlighten the world.