God's Hand On America

HAS GOD WITHDRAWN HIS SPECIAL BLESSINGS FROM THE UNITED STATES? Americans ponder that painful question in troubled times. Yet somehow - on battlefields, across western wildernesses, and in raucous convention halls - astounding events have reliably advanced America, restoring faith in the Republic's providential protection.  This book builds on themes of The American Miracle, Medved's bestseller about America'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.  In this sweeping and provocative historical narrative, Michael Medved brings to life ten haunting tales that reveal this purposeful pattern, including: - A near-fatal carriage accident winds up saving Lincoln's secretary of state, just barely allowing him, two years later, to acquire Alaska for the United States. - A sudden tidal wave of Russian Jewish immigration, beginning in 1881, coincides with American's rise to world leade