1137 Historian Kenneth C Davis and Your Headlines and Sound Bytes
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Kenneth C. Davis is the author of Don’t Know Much About® History, which spent 35 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, and gave rise to the Don’t Know Much About® series of books and audios, which has a combined in-print total of some 4.7-million copies.
In September 2020, Don’t Know Much About® History: Anniversary Edition was released by HarperCollins. A revised, updated, and expanded edition of the book that started the series thirty years ago, it presents a complete survey of American history, from before the arrival of Columbus in 1492 right through the events of the past decade –from 9/11 through the election of Barack Obama and the first years of his administration. This 30th anniversary edition included a new preface, “From the Era of Broken Trust to the Era of Broken Democracy.”
Davis is also the author of the New York Times bestseller America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation.
In September 2016, his book IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives was published to critical acclaim. In May 2018, MORE DEADLY THAN WAR: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and The First World War was published. In October 2020, STRONGMAN: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy was released. In November 2022, Scribner published Great Short Books: A Year of Reading–Briefly.
For more than 30 years, Kenneth C. Davis has proven that Americans don’t hate history, just the dull version they slept through in class.
But many of them want to know now because their kids are asking them questions they can’t answer. 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-letter word.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there and welcome to the Wednesday show it's July 3rd as I'm taping this I am |
| 0:07.7 | your host Pete Dominic and joining me today Kenneth C, my favorite historian. Why? Well, because Dahlia Lithwick, one of my favorite |
| 0:16.4 | legal experts, said yesterday or Monday, as an official representative of the legal |
| 0:20.8 | commentariat, I want to suggest that tonight's a good news cycle to talk to the fascism and authoritarianism experts. |
| 0:28.0 | This is there ending now. |
| 0:30.0 | Well, we're still in that new cycle and that time, so I've got the great historian, Kenancy Davis, |
| 0:36.8 | author of Strongman, to talk about authoritarianism, as well as Independence Day, and where we are at in America today. |
| 0:45.0 | Great conversation. If you want to jump to it, it does begin at |
| 0:49.0 | plenty four minutes. |
| 0:51.0 | But I know you want to stay for my news rundown because it is the best in the |
| 0:56.2 | entire business of daily podcasts. No one does it better, says the New York Times. |
| 1:01.4 | Nobody says that. I don't know. |
| 1:03.2 | But a lot of people do love it and say they're here for it, |
| 1:06.0 | and I thank you very much for that. |
| 1:07.9 | Especially because I won't be hosting tomorrow nights hang out |
| 1:10.9 | because it's the 4th of July, |
| 1:12.3 | and I'm actually driving down to speak at another |
| 1:16.1 | youth conference. It's the Student Climate Conservation Congress at the National Conservation |
| 1:21.4 | Training Center which I'm going back to and so I won't be able to |
| 1:25.1 | host a hangout tomorrow night but I might do something over the weekend or I might do a couple |
| 1:30.4 | of hangouts a week coming up in these next few weeks and maybe even until the election |
| 1:36.0 | I don't know what I'll have time for but I'm really glad that we did it Monday night |
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