Fighting the Crisis of Reading with Short Nonfiction

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🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Bestselling historian and author Kenneth C. Davis joins to discuss 'The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction,' exploring how short, impactful reads can combat the modern decline in reading habits and keep us intellectually engaged.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. And in this space, we have conversations that very few people have. I love nuance, but more than nuance. I really like to think deeply about the conditions that we find ourselves in every day.
0:22.0	And this is what this space is all about. When I started my radio career, it was about, what year was
0:28.9	that? 2001? 2001, yeah. The first historian I ever interviewed on WWRL, 1600, was this man.
0:41.4	He had a book called Don't Know Much About History.
0:44.1	And it was my very first interview.
0:46.3	It's been 20 plus years.
0:48.1	Kenneth C. Davis, he is back.
0:50.8	The latest is The World in Books.
0:53.6	The World and Books. Let me welcome him back to my space.
0:58.0	Hello. Hello, Karen. It is always a pleasure to join you. It has been a long time.
1:06.1	And amazingly, you have not gotten a day older. Neither. I was just, I'm looking at you. You look the damn same. You look the day. Mine is, your vest is different because Kenneth C. Davis is always wearing. Natalie dressed always. So you've upgrade, not upgraded. I think, I don't know, this is a little sporty for you, sir. This is sporty, but, you know, it's a little chilly. Yes. The end of October.
1:29.3	You have to go for a little more fleece than the cotton vest. But at any rate, it's wonderful to be here.
1:35.1	It's a pleasure to talk to you. As always, we've had many interesting conversations over the years.
1:41.1	Many, many years ago, we were talking about the importance of voting and elections and
1:46.8	democracy and here we are. Yeah. Yeah. And what Liberty is. In the Shadow of Liberty is one of one of my
1:54.8	faves of yours, which also kind of talks about maybe a period that unfortunately we may be seeing
2:00.5	again. Hopefully not. But you write about. kind of talks about maybe a period that unfortunately we may be seeing again hopefully not but
2:02.6	you write about the land of the free in many ways not only is america born in hypocrisy you know
2:11.9	land of the free home of the brave while they enslave and a trail of tears you know while they
2:16.5	decimate whole groups of people.
2:20.0	It's always kind of unspoken that maybe the words we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
2:26.0	created equal endowed with these inalienable rights of life, liberty, and a pursuit of happiness.
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