Spent a good deal of time in research last year working toward a title...kept finding ones close to what I wanted to write but without the same goal in mind. I have in the course of searching found several books about the Founding Fathers and God in the early years of America.
God's overwhelming guidance and direction have been a major part of historical moves throughout our history.
Successes and failures may be earlier or later than we expected, perhaps because even believers sometimes do not follow God's direction when first given just like Jonah who needed a whale to convince him to do what God planned for him to do. The result was not what Jonah wanted after he did the work, but like many of us, he did not see the bigger picture.