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    • An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
    • By: Priscilla Murolo, A.B. Chitty
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Praised for its "impressive even-handedness", From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review)....

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    • A Short History of Barbecue in America
    • By: Jim Auchmutey
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Barbecue: It's America in a mouthful. The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, the colonial era, slavery, the Civil War, the settling of the West, the coming of immigrants, the rise of the automobile, the expansion of suburbia....

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    • Revised 2020 Edition (Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 1)
    • By: N.S. Wikarski
    • Narrated by: Lucinda Gainey
    • Series: Gilded Age Chicago Mystery, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Chicago in the 1890s is the fastest growing metropolis in America. An eccentric heiress and a cub reporter find themselves repeatedly drawn into the hidden world of intrigue and murder that lurks within the shadows of the White City....

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    • FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy
    • By: Robert Kuttner, Joseph E. Stiglitz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Robert Kuttner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril....

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    • A History
    • By: Jay P. Dolan
    • Narrated by: Jim McCabe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America’s most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history....

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    • The Hidden History of American Politics
    • By: Sean Wilentz
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Historian Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that together reveal a clearer, much-needed vision of American political history....

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    • The Novel
    • By: Edward Rutherfurd
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • The best-selling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day. Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga....

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    • The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became America’s Most Notorious Robber Baron
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Of all the men labeled as robber barons during the Gilded Age, nobody was as notorious during his time as Jason Gould. Gould studied every aspect he could of the booming railroad industry of the Civil War era, and then parlayed his money and connections to end up on the right side of the stock market crash in 1869.

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    • By: Edith Wharton
    • Narrated by: Zöe Dean
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The Age of Innocence was first published in 1920 by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the 1870s, in upper-class "Gilded Age" New York City....

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    • Race and Labor in America Since 1865
    • By: Robert H. Zieger
    • Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 describes the African American struggle to obtain equal rights in the workplace and organized labor's response to their demands....

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    • The Darlingtons, Book 1
    • By: Naomi Finley
    • Narrated by: April Doty
    • Series: Darlingtons, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The year 1870. The onset of the Gilded Age. Times are changing, and so are the ideals centered around women, but Kat Darlington’s troubles go much deeper than the world’s inequality, and they occur closer to home....

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    • Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: John Dossett
    • Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry....

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    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
    • Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • One of the first major American novels to satirize the political milieu of Washington, and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Elizabeth Gage
    • Narrated by: Kate Nulgrew
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 06-19-09
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Plunge into the glamour and fame, dark secrets and sordid lives of 3 high rollers living in Hollywood's gilded age....

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    • Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital
    • By: Claire Goldstene
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Goldstene uses a biographical approach to focus on key figures along a spectrum of political belief as they struggled to reconcile the inherent contradictions of equal opportunity....

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    • Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel
    • By: Maryjean Wall
    • Narrated by: Caroline Shively
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house: an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln....

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    • From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter (True Crime History)
    • By: Thomas Crowl
    • Narrated by: Chaz Allen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and “one of the top 10 imposters of all time”, according to TIME magazine....

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    • A Study in Social Protest
    • By: Floyd Dell
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This insightful and unsparing biography of Sinclair was written by Dell when Sinclair was 48 years old and in mid career. The spectacular success of The Jungle was behind him, and he had already become a world famous celebrity writer....

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    • By: J. E. Dyer
    • Narrated by: T. W. Ashworth
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Five families with an American dream. One railroad to span a nation. Empires will rise. Relationships will crumble. Collis Huntington, the last living member of the Associates, now wants to set the record straight....

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