cover image Don't Know Much about History: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned

Don't Know Much about History: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned

Kenneth C. Davis. Harper Perennial, $14 (478pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71252-6

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. (June)