Don't know much about history : everything you need to know about American history, but never learned / Kenneth C. Davis.
- Title
- Don't know much about history : everything you need to know about American history, but never learned / Kenneth C. Davis.
- Published by
- New York : Crown, c1990.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xv, 462 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Question-and-answer format provides information about American history from exploration of the New World through the present.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Trivia and miscellanea
- 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 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 -- Torch is passed: from Camelot to Hollywood on the Potomac -- Appendix I: is the electoral college a party school? : a presidential election primer -- Appendix II: U.S. presidents and their administrations.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-449) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain