Don’t Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
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Who really learned America? What was “the shot heard ’round the world”? Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Did he or didn’t he?
From the arrival of Columbus through the bizarre election of 2000 and beyond, Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through more than 500 years of American history. In this updated edition of the classic anti-textbook, he debunks, recounts, and serves up the real tale behind the myths and fallacies of American history.
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Finally, a name who tells history like it was, lacking the ancient textbook gloss that’s place 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.
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Small known facts about the Presidency:
Prior to the evolution of a clear two-party system and separate election of the President and the Vice-President, there were regularly three or four contenders for the presidency, regularly from the same party. The most legendary instance of this came in 1800. Jefferson, who was unofficially his party’s candidate for President, and Burr, both Democratic-Republicans, tied with 73 electoral votes. The two opposing Federalist candidates, John Adams and Charles C. Pinckney trailed with 65 and 64 respectively. The election was chose in the House of Representatives in the so-called Revolution of 1800.
In the 1824 election, there were four legitimate candidates for the presidency: John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and William H. Crawford. Jackson won the most well loved and electoral votes, but lacked the majority of electoral votes needed. The election was thrown to the House of Representatives, which went for Jon=hn Quincy Adams when Clay as powerful House leader, threw his support to the New Englander in the so-called Corrupt Bargain. At least, it wasn’t chose by a biased Supreme Court Judge, as in the Gore/Bush fiasco.
On Harrison’s death of pneumonia a few months after his swearing in, Tyler became the first Vice-President to make it to the office due to the death of a sitting President. Tyler kept Harrison’s Cabinet, but named no new Vice-President. There was no constitutional provision for replacing a Vice-President until ratification of the 25th Amendment in 1967.
Abraham Lincoln failed in business 1831 and again in 1833. In the meantime, he ran for state legislator and lost. His sweetheart died in 1835, and he had a nervous breakdown the next year. He lost the appointment to Congress in 1843, was defeated again for Congress in 1848 and 1855 and lost the vice presidency of the United States in 1856. Then he ran for Senator in 1858 and lost. In 1860 Abe Lincoln was elected president of the United States. The rest is history.
In the election of 1888, Cleveland won the well loved vote with 448.6 percent of the votes cast, but lost the election in the electoral college, where Harrison won 233-168. They tried to aver that with Bush, but he was agreed the election by another Republican.
In 1960 (when Jeff and John, Jr. were born), John F. Kennedy beat Nixon by the slimmest of margins (except for Gore’s non-”win” against Bush), 118,574 vote difference.
After Nixon’s V.P had to resign because of tax fraud when he had been the ex- administrator of Maryland, Ford was chosen as Vice-President. Ford succeeded Nixon following his resignation in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Nelson Rockefeller of New York was appointed V.P. by Ford under the 25th Amendment.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one to notice the anti-White preaching in this book. Not what I expected at all because this is how History is taught today and this is supposed to be an answer to that. I was expecting to learn a lot more – most of the things mentioned I already knew. I graduated from high school in ‘89 and then got a Bachelor’s degree from a state college that wasn’t in History. Perhaps this book would be useful to persons who have less education.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This is the liberal view of history. (They never see anything excellent.)
This is the whole book.
We hurt the Indians.
We hurt blacks.
We hurt the Viet Cong.
Conservatives are terrible.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Davis’s treatment repeatedly tells us how dull additional histories are until we are bored with the repetition. Then he gives us the thinnest liberal telling. White men were all terrible, indians were excellent. Women were courageous. Conservatives are anti-semites. Republicans are terrible and pro business. Anti-communism was silly. And all history is filtered through the vietnam protestor’s filter. Mr. Davis is dull and really predictable and has sacrificed accuracy for liberal orthodoxy. This is offensive when it neglects Margaret Sanger’s racism, and communist depredations.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Mr. Davis’ Don’t Know Much About books are fun to read and enlightening, but there are not just a few deviations from fact, especially in this book and his Civil War book. I loved reading them but they should not be taken for the “end all – be all”. Some further research is advised.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5