Books by Kenneth C. Davis
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review 1: My first audio book. I have always shied away from listening to a book on tape. Guess I feel as though I am cheating. However, I have been craving learning lately and my reading can't keep up with my desire to gain knowledge. Additionally, this book is rather voluminous so I thou...
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review 1: This was an interesting book. It relates stories that are not the ones that are usually included in history books. There are a total of six stories in this book that I knew nothing about. For instance, Queen Isabella insisting that Columbus bring pigs with him on his voyage. T...
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review 1: Anyone that finds themselves intrigued by American history should find this one highly entertaining as well as enlightening. Covering the period between 1800 and 1850 when the colonies emerged from a struggling neophyte nation to a continent-spanning, near empire, Davis concentr...
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review 1: I thought this would be more of an encyclopedic reference to great literature. Instead, the summary of each book was entirely too short, and the trivia test were distracting and misleading. I would have preferred a lot more books, a tiny bit longer summaries and lots of facts and...
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review 1: Having never read one of these "Don't Know Much About..." books, I was unprepared for the format. Each chapter (if one could call them chapters) is given a small blurb about the topic, whether specific to a particular book title, author, or subject (such as, working or catchy tit...