Product Description

From Columbus's voyage to the Clinton administration, author Kenneth C. Davis carries the reader on a rollicking ride through 600 years of Americana. With wit, candor and fascinating facts, he explodes long-held myths and misconceptions -- revealing the very human side of history that the textbooks neglect.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #283663 in Books
• Published on: 1991-06-07
• Released on: 1999-09-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 462 pages

Amazon.com Review
Finally, someone who tells history like it was, without the old textbook gloss that's put so many students into premature naptime and misinformed the few who stayed awake. Davis corrects the myths and misconceptions from Columbus up through the Clinton administration, and shows that truth is more entertaining than propaganda.

From Publishers Weekly
This reference, intended to supplement Americans' insufficient knowledge of their country's history, lists essential people, places and dates from the New World's discovery to the Iran-Contra affair, and compares past events to those of the present.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal
"What did America gain from the Spanish-American War? What was the Bonus Army? What happened at the Bay of Pigs?" Davis gives the answers to these questions and others in this informative, easy-to-read book that is organized in chronological order from the beginning of American history to the Reagan presidency. The chapters contain questions and answers and excerpts from speeches and related writings of the time. Under "selected readings," Davis includes historical fiction as well as annotated lists of nonfiction to supplement each section. The book can be read from start to finish as a narrative or it can be used as a reference source in American history classes. It's sure to make history come alive for YAs. --Roberta Lisker, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.