Kenneth C. Davis is the New York Times bestselling author of the Don't Know Much About® series of books and audios for adults and children. Don't Know Much About® History, the first title in the series, became a New York Times bestseller in 1991 and remained on the paperback list for 35 consecutive weeks. It has since been revised several times and now has more than 1.6 million copies in print. The 30th anniversary edition of the book was published with a new preface, "From an Era of Broken Trust to an Era of Broken Democracy." Davis is, according to Publishers Weekly, "a go-to guy for historical insight and analysis." AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY also became a New York Times bestseller. A NATION RISING also uses dramatic narratives to tell the "stories your textbooks left out." His book, THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AMERICA AT WAR (May 5, 2015) was called "searing" analysis by Publishers Weekly. Kenneth C. Davis’s success aptly makes the case that Americans don’t hate history, just the dull version they slept through in class. Davis’s approach is to refresh us on the subjects we should have learned in school. He does it by busting myths, setting the record straight, and always remembering that fun is not a four-word letter word. His IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF SLAVERY, FOUR PRESIDENTS, AND FIVE BLACK LIVES looks at the lives of five people enslaved by four of America's most famous Presidents and the role of slavery in American history and the presidency. In May 2018, MORE DEADLY THAN WAR: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War was published. STRONGMAN: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy was published by Holt. It was named among the best books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews and the Washington Post. Coming in November 2022 is GREAT SHORT BOOKS: A Year of reading—Briefly. A compendium of 58 great short works Davis read during the pandemic lock down, it is a joyous celebration of reading.
Books
Don't Know Much About Geography
Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned
1992
Don't Know Much About Mythology
Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned
2005
Don't Know Much About Rosa Parks
2005
Don't Know Much About the Pioneers
2003
Don't Know Much About History
Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
1990
Don't Know Much About the Civil War
Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned
1996
Don't Know Much About Thomas Jefferson
2005
Don't Know Much About George Washington
2003
The World in Books
52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction
2024
Don't Know Much About Abraham Lincoln
2004
Don't Know Much About the Universe
Everything You Need to Know About Outer Space but Never Learned
2001
Dont Know Much About American History By Davis Kenneth C Faulkner Matt ILT
2003
Don't Know Much About Planet Earth
2001
Don't Know Much About World Myths
2005
More Deadly Than War
The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War
2018
A Nation Rising
Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America's Hidden History
2010
Don't Know Much About Mummies
2005
Don't Know Much About the American Presidents
2001
Don't Know Much About Literature
What You Need to Know but Never Learned About Great Books and Authors
2009
Don't Know Much About Anything
Everything You Need to Know but Never Learned About People, Places, Events, and More!
2007
Two-Bit Culture
The Paperbacking of America
1984
Don't Know Much About Dinosaurs
2004
Don't Know Much About the Kings and Queens of England
2002
Don't Know Much About the Bible
Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned
1998
Don't Know Much About the 50 States
2001
Don't Know Much About Anything Else
Even More Things You Need to Know but Never Learned About People, Places, Events, and More!
2008
Don't Know Much About the Solar System
2001
Great Short Books
A Year of Reading-Briefly
2022
The Hidden History of America at War
Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah
2015
Strongman
The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy
2020
In the Shadow of Liberty
The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
2016
DONT KNOW MUCH ABT SPACE (Don't Know Much About…
2001
America's Hidden History
Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
2008
Don't Know Much About Martin Luther King Jr.
2005
