Any serious reader of history knows America was never great and it is still not great. The curious item is Trump praises Norway which may be great but who knows. I do know the history of America. Read sometime people and you shall learn. But there is lots of good here, great is a stretch. We can be better.
'Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong' by James W. Loewen
'Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted' Ian Millhiser
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22715946-injustices
'White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America' Nancy Isenberg
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209433-white-trash
'Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools' Jonathan Kozol'
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25078.Savage_Inequalities