1447 Kenneth C. Davis + News & Clips

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Pete Dominick

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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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	Hello and welcome to the last day of September.
0:03.6	Very glad to have you here.
0:04.9	I've got our favorite historian who hasn't joined us in quite some time.
0:08.7	It's Kenneth C. Davis joined to talk about the history of free speech in America
0:14.5	and why banning books is as American as apple pie, that and much more.
0:21.1	Great conversation with Kenneth C. Davis.
0:23.5	If you want to jump to that interview, you can skip ahead.
0:27.6	It begins at about 34 minutes in today.
0:30.7	But before that, like I do, almost every weekday, I've got your headlines and a clip show for you.
0:37.0	Can't do it without your support. Thank you very much for
0:39.4	subscribing. We've got some new subscribers this week. It's been great lately, and I cannot thank you
0:45.1	enough. Patreon.com slash Pete Dominic is the place to go. Looks like I'll be live with Wajad Ali today
0:52.9	at 3 p.m. on Substack and everywhere else.
0:57.4	And I think that's all I need to tell you.
0:58.9	Let's get to those headlines and clips.
1:00.7	It's beats headlines and clip show.
1:04.2	Get in on the shit show.
1:06.9	All right, several big stories driving yesterday.
1:10.1	You had our Mad King rambling and making all kinds of pronouncements in the White House yesterday with the leader of Israel, Bibianette and Yahoo.
1:19.4	Really bizarre press conference.
1:20.9	They didn't take any questions.
1:22.2	They announced this kind of peace plan that Israel and the U.S. are going to agree to, but there's probably no chance that the
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