Does God Still Bless the USA?: A Plea for a Better America

Lee Greenwood wrote "God Bless the U.S.A." in 1984, and the song has never stopped resonating. It has been played at inaugurations, memorials, and rallies across four decades, because the question embedded in its title is one that Americans have never stopped asking, even when they don't quite know how to ask it. In Does God Still Bless the USA?, Greenwood asks it directly. The book is part personal reflection and part patriotic challenge, a call for Americans to recover an authentic patriotism rooted in the founding principles that made the country worth defending in the first place. Greenwood's argument is unapologetic: the inalienable rights the founders spoke of came from God, and the strength of American civilization has always drawn from the faith that acknowledged that source. When that foundation erodes, so does everything built on it. Chapter by chapter, Greenwood moves through the areas he sees as essential to freedom, prosperity, and safety, areas where the country has drifted and where a return to first principles is not optional but urgent. America is at a crossroads, he writes, and people are looking for someone willing to tell the truth about it. This is his answer to that longing.