Don't Know Much About(r) History [30th Anniversary Edition]: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned

Kenneth C. Davis

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Book cover for Don't Know Much About(r) History [30th Anniversary Edition]: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned

Don't Know Much About(r) History [30th Anniversary Edition]: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned

Don't Know Much About(r) History [30th Anniversary Edition]: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned

Kenneth C. Davis

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A New York Times bestseller - More than 1.7 Million Copies Sold!

"Reading Davis is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had!" --People magazine

From the arrival of Columbus through the historic election of Barack Obama and beyond, Kenneth C. Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through more than five hundred years of American history. In this 30th anniversary edition of the classic anti-textbook--which includes a new preface by Davis--he debunks, recounts, and serves up the real story behind the myths and fallacies of American history.

Critical Reviews

"A book that not only fills in gaps in historical knowledge, but is genuinely entertaining. . . . Wonderful!"--Orlando Sentinel

"Refreshing and vastly informative . . . fun, engrossing and significant. . . . History in Davis's hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent--and memorable."--Patrida Holt, San Francisco Chronicle

"Quirky, sardonic, accurate, rudimentary and often amusing . . . a breezy question-and-answer approach that is far removed from the massive textbooks all of us once lugged around."--Atlanta Journal and Constitution

"If you've always wondered exactly what Boss Tweed bossed and what Tammany Hall was, Davis is your man."--Washington Post Book World

"Davis writes with humor, he can turn a fine phrase. . . . If history were usuallytaught this way, we wouldn't have to worry about the dosing of the American mind."--Booklist

"Unquestionably a handy reference book. It's just the thing when your pesky school-age kids try to show you up at homework time."--Dallas News

Publishing Information

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Pub date: 2020-09-22
Length: 752 pages

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