Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country

by Andy Beshear

A compelling and insightful book that reclaims faith as a force for good in public life and rebukes those who use it to harm and discriminate, by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear

Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, is the grandson of Baptist lay ministers, the son of a previous Kentucky governor, and a leading Democratic voice against the cruel, corrupt, and immoral practices of Donald Trump and his administration. In Go and Do Likewise, Beshear will share what his own faith has meant to him, how it has informed his family and his public life—and serves as a rebuke to how faith has been hijacked, profaned, misused, and corrupted by Donald Trump and other public figures. By regrounding faith in compassion and kindness, we can start to heal as a country.

Go and Do Likewise takes its title from the story of the Good Samaritan. In the parable, Jesus describes how the Good Samaritan—a despised “other” at the time—stopped to help a stranger who had been beaten and left for dead and then calls on his followers to do likewise and care for everyone. Organized around the teachings of Jesus—stories of healing, of justice, of forgiveness, of welcome, of moral clarity—Go and Do Likewise transcends politics to remind Americans of the values grounded in service and acceptance. It is a book for everyone who believes in justice and doing right by their neighbor whether or not they support organized religion at all.

Clear-eyed, compelling, and unusually candid, Go and Do Likewise is a hopeful book by one of America’s brightest political lights.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction

256 pages, Hardcover

Published September 22, 2026

Reviews

[Toni Jackson]

I was able to get a copy when Andy did an autograph signing event in Lexington. I am an atheist. I don’t believe there is a higher power, but I do believe in a lot of what the Bible teaches. Andy writes a lot of Bible versus and how they help guide him in his actions. He is a Christian of love that loves his neighbors and wants to help all, and not a Christian that hates other people and wants to hurt others because they aren’t the same as him. His heart is in this book and it made me teary eyed reading his convictions with how he would risk it all several times because it was the right thing to do. In a world of hateful politics, it’s soothing to know there is one person out there that follows love and kindness.

[Beverly]

Thank you for choosing me to read and review this book. I look forward to receiving my copy. Governor Beshear sounds like just the kind of man that we need in politics today.