Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never LearnedHarper Collins, 21/06/2011 - 752 páginas A New York Times bestseller · More than 1.6 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 revised, expanded, and updated edition of the classic anti-textbook, he debunks, recounts, and serves up the real story behind the myths and fallacies of American history. |
Índice
| 3 | |
America in the Fifties | 399 |
Chapter 8 | 406 |
From Camelot to Hollywood on the Potomac | 441 |
Chapter 9 | 509 |
From the Evil Empire to the Axis of Evil | 537 |
The Bill of Rights and Other Constitutional Amendments | 629 |
Appendix 2 | 650 |
U S Presidents and Their Administrations | 658 |
Selected Readings | 665 |
Chapter 4 | 677 |
Acknowledgments | 695 |
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