{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 727: Historian and Best Selling Author Kenneth C Davis","description":"Stand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more   Kenneth C. Davis is the bestselling author of Don\u2019t Know Much About\u00ae History and other books in the Don\u2019t Know Much About\u00ae series. He also wrote the acclaimed In the Shadow of Liberty.  Get his new book! Great Short Books: A Year of Reading\u2015Briefly  A delightful, entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time from a bestselling historian, author, and lifelong reader. Fall back into the joys of literature with an extraordinary book for book lovers: a compulsively readable, deeply engaging list of great short novels. A journey into short fiction designed with our contemporary attention spans in mind, Great Short Books suggests fifty-eight excellent short novels, all easily readable in a week or less\u2014a \u201cbaker\u2019s dozen\u201d approach to a fun, fascinating year of reading. From hard-boiled fiction to magical realism, the 18th century to the present day, Great Short Books spans genres, cultures, countries, and time to present an enchanting and diverse selection of acclaimed and canonical novels. From works in translation like Yu Miri\u2019s \u200bTokyo Ueno Station and Marguerite Duras\u2019s The Lover to popular, acclaimed authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Stephen King, this compilation is a celebration of classics from the historic to contemporary\u2014plus a few bestsellers. Each entry includes the novel\u2019s opening lines, a spoiler-free plot summary, a \u201cwhy you should read it\u201d section, and suggestions for what to read next. Just like browsing in your favorite bookstore, this eclectic collection is a fun and practical book for any passionate reader hoping to broaden their collection\u2014or anyone who wants to find an entertaining and effortless reentry into reading. For 30 years, Kenneth C. Davis has proven that Americans don\u2019t hate history \u2014 just the dull version they slept through in class. Davis\u2019s 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 making history human. If your school, library or learning community would like to speak with Kenneth C. Davis about American history, click on   Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page ","author_name":"Stand Up! with Pete Dominick","author_url":"http:\/\/standupwithpete.libsyn.com\/website","html":"