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  • Great Short Books

    A Year of Reading—Briefly

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    Series series Great Short Books
    This entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time, from a bestselling historian, is the “perfect gift for busy bibliophiles” (BookPage).Experience the joys of literature with this this “exciting guide to all that the world of fiction has to offer” (The New York Times Book Review): a compulsively readable, deeply engaging discussion of great short novels. A journey into fiction ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Roosevelt Assassin

    by Kenneth S. Davis ...
    On a warm Miami evening in 1933, a man with a pistol came within inches of altering the course of American history. Here, in this essay by award-winning historian Kenneth S. Davis, is the story of Giuseppe Zangara's attempted assassination of President Franklin Roosevelt. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Nation Rising

    Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America’s Hidden History

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    “History in Davis’s hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent—and memorable.”— San Francisco ChronicleFollowing 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.What happens when the ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Emotional Foundations of Personality

    A Neurobiological and Evolutionary Approach

    by Kenneth L. Davis, Jaak Panksepp, PhD ...
    A CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of 2018.A novel approach to understanding personality, based on evidence that we share more than we realize with other mammals.This book presents the wealth of scientific evidence that our personality emerges from evolved primary emotions shared by all mammals. Yes, your dog feels love—and many other things too. These subcortically generated emotions ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Miss Roosevelt

    by Kenneth S. Davis ...
    "She is such a funny child, so old-fashioned that we always call her 'Granny,'" her mother said. But her cousin Franklin felt otherwise. Here, in this short-form book by award-winning historian Kenneth S. Davis, is the story of young Eleanor Roosevelt. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Deadly Than War

    The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    New York Times–Bestselling Author: "Facts, quotes, anecdotes, and visual images tell the combined history of the 1918 flu epidemic and World War I." — Kirkus ReviewsIt was the worst disease outbreak in modern times: the Spanish flu, which struck in the final year of the First World War and killed far more people than COVID-19—an estimated fifty to one hundred million. This dramatic narrative, told ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The World in Books

    A Year of Reading—Wisely

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    Series series Great Short Books
    A bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the world’s most influential writers—from Plato to Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway to bell hooks, and Marcus Aurelius to Joan Didion. A delightful roadmap to a year’s worth of reading briefly, plus biographies, fascinating facts, and idea ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Hidden History of America at War

    Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    Series series Don't Know Much About
    A New York Times –bestselling author explores U. S. identity through the lens of the country's warfare in this thought provoking history.Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War. In prose that will remind you of "the best teacher you ever had" ( People), Davis brings to life six emblematic battles, revealing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In the Shadow of Liberty

    The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    A look at how some of America's founding fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—were slave owners."[A] powerful examination of five enslaved individuals and their presidential owners. . . . In a thoroughly researched and reasoned account, Davis exposes the intricacies of this impossibly tangled web." — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThrough the powerful stories of five enslaved ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • America's Hidden History

    Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Davis's dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths and bringing to light little-known but fascinating facts from a time when the nation's fate hung in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Don't Know Much About Geography

    Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    Series series The Don't Know Much About Series
    An "entertaining [and] eminently readable" exploration of our home planet from the New York Times–bestselling author of Don't Know Much About History ( Publishers Weekly).Geography is much more than naming countries on a map or memorizing state capitals. It's the hub from which other disciplines radiate: meteorology, ecology, geology, oceanography, demographics, cartography, agricultural studies, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Don't Know Much About® the American Presidents

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    From a New York Times bestselling author comes a "guided tour" of the presidents of the United States.From the heated debates among the framers of the Constitution in 1787 over an "elected king," to the creation of the presidency, and on through rich profiles of each man who has held the office, author Kenneth C. Davis examines each chief executive, from the low lights to the bright lights, the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook