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Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned (Don't Know Much About...) PDF

707 Pages·2004·2.9 MB·English
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Also by Kenneth C. Davis Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America Don’t Know Much About®Geography Don’t Know Much About®the Civil War Don’t Know Much About®the Bible Don’t Know Much About®the Universe D O N ’ T K N O W M U C H A B O U T® H I S T O R Y EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY BUT NEVER LEARNED K E N N E T H C . D AV I S To my children, Jenny and Colin C O N T E N T S PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION ix INTRODUCTION xi AUTHOR’S NOTE xxiii CHAPTER 1 Brave New World 1 CHAPTER 2 Say You Want a Revolution 47 CHAPTER 3 Growth of a Nation: From the Creation of the Constitution to Manifest Destiny 107 CHAPTER 4 Apocalypse Then: To Civil War and Reconstruction 183 CHAPTER 5 When Monopoly Wasn’t a Game: The Growing Empire from Wild West to World War I 253 CHAPTER 6 Boom to Bust to Big Boom: From the Jazz Age and the Great Depression to Hiroshima 319 viii Contents CHAPTER 7 Commies, Containment, and Cold War: America in the Fifties 397 CHAPTER 8 The Torch Is Passed: From Camelot to Hollywood on the Potomac 437 CHAPTER 9 From the Evil Empire to the Axis of Evil 533 AFTERWORD 589 APPENDIX 1 The Bill of Rights and Other Constitutional Amendments 595 APPENDIX 2 Is the Electoral College a Party School? A Presidential Election Primer 618 APPENDIX 3 U.S. Presidents and Their Administrations 624 Selected Readings 631 Acknowledgments 657 Searchable Terms 659 About the Author Also by Kenneth C. Davis Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher Chapter Title to Come ix

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