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Kenneth C. Davis

Kenneth C. Davis est un auteur à succès du New York Times, surtout connu pour sa série "Don't Know Much About®", qui a révolutionné l'écriture de l'histoire populaire en rendant des sujets complexes accessibles et captivants. La série a débuté avec "Don't Know Much About® History", resté 35 semaines consécutives sur la liste des best-sellers du New York Times et vendu à plus de 1,6 million d'exemplaires. Ses œuvres, notamment "America's Hidden History", "A Nation Rising" et "The Hidden History of America at War", allient une recherche rigoureuse à des récits captivants pour révéler des aspects méconnus de l'histoire américaine. Publishers Weekly a salué Davis comme "une référence pour la perspicacité et l'analyse historiques".

Davis se spécialise dans l'examen de récits historiques moins connus à travers une prose méticuleusement documentée mais accessible. Son livre "In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives" explore la relation complexe entre l'esclavage et la présidence américaine. Parmi ses autres œuvres notables figurent "More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War" et "Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy", classé parmi les meilleurs livres de 2020 par Kirkus Reviews et le Washington Post. Sa publication de 2022, "Great Short Books: A Year of Reading—Briefly", témoigne de sa polyvalence littéraire en célébrant la concision.

Poursuivant son exploration de l'écriture percutante, Davis s'apprête à publier "The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction" en octobre 2024. Ce futur ouvrage reflète son engagement à rendre la non-fiction significative accessible au grand public. Tout au long de sa carrière, Davis a démontré une capacité unique à transformer l'érudition historique en récits captivants qui résonnent autant auprès des lecteurs occasionnels que des passionnés d'histoire.
Don't Know Much About Books
# Titre Année
1 Don't Know Much about History 1990
2 Don't Know Much About Geography 1992
3 Don't Know Much About the Civil War 1996
4 Don't Know Much About the Bible 1998
5 Don't Know Much About the Universe 2001
6 Don't Know Much about Planet Earth 2001
7 Don't Know Much About Space 2001
8 Don't Know Much About the American Presidents 2001
9 Don't Know Much about the Kings and Queens of England 2002
10 Don't Know Much About the Pilgrims 2002
11 Don't Know Much about George Washington 2003
12 Don't Know Much about Sitting Bull 2003
13 Don't Know Much About the Pioneers 2003
14 Don't Know Much About American History 2003
15 Don't Know Much about Abraham Lincoln 2004
16 Don't Know Much about Dinosaurs 2004
17 Don't Know Much About the 50 States 2004
18 Don't Know Much About the Solar System 2004
19 Don't Know Much About Rosa Parks 2005
20 Don't Know Much about Mummies 2005
21 Don't Know Much About Mythology 2005
22 Don't Know Much about World Myths 2005
23 Don't Know Much about Thomas Jefferson 2005
24 Don't Know Much about Martin Luther King JR. 2005
25 Don't Know Much About Anything 2007
26 Don't Know Much About Anything Else 2008
27 Don't Know Much About Literature 2009
28 Don't Know Much about Shakespeare 2010
Livres de non-fiction
# Titre Année
1 Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America (With: Joann Giusto-Davis) 1984
2 America's Hidden History 2008
3 A Nation Rising 2010
4 The Hidden History of America at War 2015
5 In the Shadow of Liberty 2016
6 More Deadly Than War 2018
7 Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy 2020
Kenneth C. Davis Anthologies
# Titre Année
1 10 Common Core Essentials 2013
2 Great Short Books: A Year of Reading—Briefly 2022
3 The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction 2024