Dont Know Much About History, Annive..., Kenneth C. Davis
Dont Know Much About History, Annive..., Kenneth C. Davis
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Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition
Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned

Author: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrator: Arthur Morey, Kenneth C. Davis, Zach McLarty, Cassandra Campbell

Abridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/21/2011


Synopsis

“Fun, engrossing, and significant. . . . History in Davis’s hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent—and memorable.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Here, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of its debut as a New York Times bestseller, is the revised, updated, and expanded edition of the classic anti-textbook that changed the way we look at history. First published two decades ago, when the “closing of the American mind” was in the headlines, Don’t Know Much About® History proved Americans don’t hate history—just the dull version that was dished out in school.

Now Davis has brought his groundbreaking work up to the present, including the history of an “Era of Broken Trust,” from the end of the Clinton administration through the recent Great Recession. This additional material covers the horrific events of 9/11 and the rise of conspiracy theorists, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the New Orleans levees, the global financial meltdown, the election of Barack Obama, and the national controversy of same-sex marriage.

About The Author

Kenneth C. Davis is the New York Times bestselling author of A Nation Rising; America’s Hidden History; and Don’t Know Much About® History, which sold more than 1.6 million copies, and gave rise to his phenomenal Don’t Know Much About® series for adults and children. He blogs regularly at www.dontknowmuch.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Burt on December 04, 2013

Currently rereading, actually. I taught advanced US History I from this book, nearly twenty years ago. Davis has this new addition and my old one got "loaned out", so I bought new to find out what had been added. OK, book read. Just as entertaining, witty, and iconoclastic as the original edition. I......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on June 27, 2009

The real problem with “Don’t Know Much About History” is that it prescribes to the Modern School of History, namely: anything white males did in the last 3,000 years is criminal, all of white men’s successes are on the backs of other people, and white men are very lucky. This is not to say DKMAH is......more

Goodreads review by Glen on April 10, 2019

A shallow popular history of the United States. I suppose one could learn something is one is wholly ignorant of the subject, but the book is so shallow, that anyone with actual knowledge won't get much of anything.......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on November 13, 2011

Good overview of American history. The more I read about history, especially American history, the more appalled and the more hopeful I become. Appalled, because humanity keeps making the same mistakes fueled by greed, apathy, and ignorance. Hopeful, because eventually a movement starts that achieve......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on June 21, 2010

Every American should be lashed to a chair and forced to read this book. That's the sort of thought that pops into my head every now and then when I get in touch with my inner-despotic dictator. A benevolent despot, I hasten to add, because it truly would do all my fellow citizens a world of good. A......more