Examines the childhood and youth, education, law career, family life, and presidency of Abraham Lincoln.

Examines the childhood and youth, education, early surveying career, life in the military, and presidency of George Washington.

Using a question-answer format, this chronological overview offers an informal introduction to American history and features annotated reading lists and biographical profiles.

An audio version of the runaway bestseller answers all of the 'stupid' but necessary questions about American history most people are afraid to ask but want and need to know. Book available.

- Which president broke the laws to keep his slaves from being freed? - How did a president help save college football from early extinction? - Who said, "When the president does it that means it's not illegal"? - If the framers of the Constitution didn't mention an "electoral college," how come it picks the president? - Who was the "Negro President?"You have questions. Kenneth C. Davis has answers.For more than twenty years since his New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned first appeared, Davis has shown that Americans don't hate history, just the dull version dished out in school. An instant classic, his first work of American history has sold more than 1.6 million copies.Now Davis turns his attention to what is arguably the most important and most fascinating subject in American history: our presidents. From the heated debates over executive powers when those framers improvised the office in the steamy summer of 1787 though the curious election of George Washington in 1789 and, for more than 200 years, up through the meteoric rise of Barack Obama, the first African-American commander in chief, the presidency has been at the heart of American history.From the low lights to the bright lights, from the intellectuals to the disasters, from the memorable to the forgettable and forgotten, Davis tells all the stories. He uses his entertaining question-and-answer style to chart the history of the presidency itself as well as debunk the myths of America's leaders and tell the real stories of these very real people. Here's the young Lincoln building his mother's coffin and dragging a tragic burden through the snow to the burial; Theodore Roosevelt, America's youngest president, shockingly pushed into the presidency--with greatness thrust upon him; FDR, the only man elected four times, concealing his crippling disability from the American public as he led the nation through depression and world war; and Lyndon Johnson, reelected in a landslide, then crushed by the weight of the Vietnam War.For history buffs and history-phobes alike, this entertaining book is packed with memorable facts that will change your understanding of the highest office in the land and the men who have occupied it.

Product Description: Three classic Kenneth C. Davis audiobooks are now available as an audiobook collection.  Collection includes: Don’t Know Much About the Civil War, Don’t Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition, and Don’t Know Much About Anything Don’t Know Much About the Civil War (5 CDs, Abridged):Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history...read more

Product Description: In the dramatic period from 1800 through 1850, the United States emerged from its inauspicious beginning as a tiny newborn nation, to a near-empire that spanned the continent. It was a time in which the “dream of our founders” spread in ways that few men of that Revolutionary Generation could possibly have imagined...read more

Product Description: “History in Davis’s hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent—and memorable.” — San Francisco Chronicle Following on his New York Times bestsellers America’s Hidden History and Don’t Know Much About History, Ken Davis explores the next chapter in the country’s hidden history: the gritty first half of the 19th century, among the most tumultuous in the nation’s short life...read more