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Don't know much about history : everything you need to know about history but never learned

Title
  1. Don't know much about history : everything you need to know about history but never learned / Kenneth C. Davis.
Published by
  1. New York : Harper, ©2011.
Author
  1. Davis, Kenneth C.

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Description
  1. xxvii, 719 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. 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.
Series statement
  1. Don't know much about
  2. Davis, Kenneth C. Don't know much about.
Subject
  1. United States > History > Miscellanea
  2. United States
Genre/Form
  1. History.
  2. Miscellanea.
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. IAG 11-8050
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 665-694) and index.
Author
  1. Davis, Kenneth C.
Title
  1. Don't know much about history : everything you need to know about history but never learned / Kenneth C. Davis.
Imprint
  1. New York : Harper, ©2011.
Edition
  1. 1st ed. [rev. ed.], Twentieth aniversary ed.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Don't know much about
  2. Davis, Kenneth C. Don't know much about.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 665-694) and index.
LCCN
  1. 2011500698
ISBN
  1. 9780061960536
  2. 0061960535
Research call number
  1. IAG 11-8050
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