Don't Know Much About History
by Davis, Kenneth C.Edition: Anniv.
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-05-08
Publisher(s): Harpercollins
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This "anti-textbook" is a completely revised and updated version of the classic book that launched the Don't Know Much About( series.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Anniversary Edition | p. xi |
| Introduction xvii | |
| Author's Note xxix | |
| Brave New World | p. 1 |
| Say You Want a Revolution | p. 47 |
| Growth of a Nation: From the Creation of the Constitution to Manifest Destiny | p. 107 |
| Apocalypse Then: To Civil War and Reconstruction | p. 185 |
| When Monopoly Wasn't a Game: The Growing Empire from the Wild West to World War I | p. 255 |
| Boom to Bust to Big Boom: From the Jazz Age and the Great Depression to Hiroshima | p. 321 |
| Commies, Containment, and Gold War: America in the Fifties | p. 399 |
| The Torch Is Passed: From Camelot to Hollywood on the Potomac | p. 441 |
| From the Evil Empire to the Axis of Evil | p. 537 |
| The Bill of Rights and Other Constitutional Amendments | p. 629 |
| Is the Electoral College a Party School? A Presidential Election Primer | p. 652 |
| U.S. Presidents and Their Administrations | p. 658 |
| Selected Readings | p. 665 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 695 |
| Index | p. 697 |
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