Authors: Kenneth C. Davis
Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned (Don't Know Much About®) (119 page)
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Table of Contents
Preface to the Anniversary Edition
Chapter 2 - Say You Want a Revolution
Chapter 3 - Growth of a Nation: From the Creation of the Constitution to Manifest Destiny
Chapter 4 - Apocalypse Then: To Civil War and Reconstruction
Chapter 5 - When Monopoly Wasn’t a Game: The Growing Empire from the Wild West to World War I
Chapter 6 - Boom to Bust to Big Boom: From the Jazz Age and the Great Depression to Hiroshima
Chapter 7 - Commies, Containment, and Cold War: America in the Fifties
Chapter 8 - The Torch Is Passed: From Camelot to Hollywood on the Potomac
Chapter 9 - From the Evil Empire to the Axis of Evil
Appendix 1 - The Bill of Rights and Other Constitutional Amendments
Appendix 2 - Is the Electoral College a Party School? A Presidential Election Primer
