Don't know much about history : everything you need to know about history but never learned / Kenneth C. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Kenneth C.

Series:

Davis, Kenneth C. Don't know much about

Don't know much about

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Miscellanea.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 719 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition [revised edition], Twentieth aniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, [2011]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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 Cold 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [665]-694) and index.

ISBN:

9780061960536 :

0061960535 :

OCLC:

670475854