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1) Don't know much about history: everything you need to know about American history, but never learned
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English
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Question-and-answer format provides information about American history from exploration of the New World through the present.
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English
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"Highly informative and entertaining…propels the reader light years beyond dull textbooks and Gone with the Wind."-San Francisco Chronicle. It has been 150 years since the opening salvo of America's War Between the States. New York Times bestselling author Ken Davis tells us everything we never knew about our nation's bloodiest conflict in Don't Know Much About ® the Civil War-another fascinating and fun installment in his acclaimed series.
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An iconoclastic look at America's past: overlooked episodes that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Spanning a period from the Spanish arrival in America to George Washington's inauguration in 1789, these narratives bring to light little-known but fascinating, myth-busting facts. Read the story of the first real Pilgrims in America, who were wine-making French Huguenots, not dour English Separatists; the coming-of-age story of Queen Isabella,...
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"History in Davis's hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent-and memorable." - San Francisco Chronicle Following on his New York Times bestsellers America's Hidden History and Don't Know Much About History, Ken Davis explores the next chapter in the country's hidden history: the gritty first half of the 19th century, among the most tumultuous in the nation's short life.
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Hyperion
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[2012], c2012
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English
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From the heated debates over executive powers when those framers improvised the office in the steamy summer of 1787 though the curious election of George Washington in 1789 and, for more than 200 years, up through the meteoric rise of Barack Obama, the first African-American commander in chief, the presidency has been at the heart of American history. From the low lights to the bright lights, from the intellectuals to the disasters, from the memorable...
14) Don't know much about history: [everything you need to know about America history but never learned]
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Bantam Audio
Pub. Date
1992
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English
15) The Presidents
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HarperCollins
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c2002
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IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Hachette Books
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2015.
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English
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Combat tales have come to form an essential piece of our identity as Americans. But as some war stories have been repackaged and embellished, the truth behind the conflicts--the lives of the average soldiers and civilians involved and the lasting significance of the battles on American history--often lies buried. Kenneth C. Davis aims to change that. Here, he takes readers inside six landmark battles that offer crucial insights. From the Battle of...
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