Don't Know Much aboutÂ® History, Anniversary Edition Everything You Need to Know about American History but Never Learned

Name: Don't Know Much aboutÂ® History, Anniversary Edition Everything You Need to Know about American History but Never Learned
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ISBN: 9780061960543

ISBN-10: 0061960543

ISBN-13: 9780061960543

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Authors: Kenneth C. Davis

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More than 1.6 million copies sold!Who really discovered America? What was "the shot heard 'round the world"?9/11: What really happened? How did America elect its first black president?From the arrival of Columbus through the historic election of Barack Obama and beyond, Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through more than five hundred years of American history. In this newly revised, expanded, and updated edition of the classic anti-textbook, he debunks, recounts, and serves up the real story behind the myths and fallacies of American history.

Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/8/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 752
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Kenneth C. Davis is an American popular historian, best known for his Don't Know Much About... series. Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Davis attended Concordia College, Bronxville in New York, and Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York City. Davis's second book, Don't Know Much About History, spent 35 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and sold nearly 1.5 million copies. This unexpected success launched the Don't Know Much About... series.



Preface to the Anniversary Edition


Introduction xvii


Author's Note xxix



Brave New World



Say You Want a Revolution



Growth of a Nation: From the Creation of the Constitution to Manifest Destiny



Apocalypse Then: To Civil War and Reconstruction



When Monopoly Wasn't a Game: The Growing Empire from the Wild West to World War I



Boom to Bust to Big Boom: From the Jazz Age and the Great Depression to Hiroshima



Commies, Containment, and Gold War: America in the Fifties



The Torch Is Passed: From Camelot to Hollywood on the Potomac



From the Evil Empire to the Axis of Evil



The Bill of Rights and Other Constitutional Amendments



Is the Electoral College a Party School? A Presidential Election Primer



U.S. Presidents and Their Administrations


Selected Readings


Acknowledgments


Index