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Curse of Riches
- By: Claire Prentice
- Narrated by: Claire Prentice, Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Claire Prentice has prised open the door of the Wendels’ Fifth Avenue mansion—dubbed “the house of mystery” by the press—to reveal a fascinating and dysfunctional family imprisoned in a gilded cage....
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Kept Waiting for it to be Interesting
- By Mary on 06-23-23
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Curse of Riches
- Narrated by: Claire Prentice, Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 12-08-22
- Language: English
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Claire Prentice has prised open the door of the Wendels’ Fifth Avenue mansion—dubbed “the house of mystery” by the press—to reveal a fascinating and dysfunctional family imprisoned in a gilded cage....
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Plutocrats
- The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
- By: Chrystia Freeland
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically....
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Good Storytelling but ... analysis is "eh'
- By Susan on 11-04-12
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Plutocrats
- The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-29-12
- Language: English
- There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically....
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Theodore Rex
- By: Edmund Morris
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
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Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States....
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I wish I could give it 6 stars
- By Michael on 10-07-03
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Theodore Rex
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Series: Theodore Roosevelt, Book 2
- Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-03-03
- Language: English
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Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States....
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The Gilded Age
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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The period from 1870 to 1900 in the US has become known as the Gilded Age, during which America was transformed almost beyond recognition....
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A Decent Simplified Overview if One Can Listen Only
- By Frank Donnelly on 10-14-19
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The Gilded Age
- A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-06-19
- Language: English
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The period from 1870 to 1900 in the US has become known as the Gilded Age, during which America was transformed almost beyond recognition....
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Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire
- By: Tom Chaffin
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
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The career of John Charles Frémont (1813-90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its 18th-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin's biography demonstrates Frémont's vital importance to the history of American empire....
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Great story, terrible narrator
- By brian johnson on 11-02-20
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Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-28-18
- Language: English
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The career of John Charles Frémont (1813-90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its 18th-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin's biography demonstrates Frémont's vital importance to the history of American empire....
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Billy the Kid
- The Endless Ride
- By: Michael Wallis
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid, a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time....
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Disappointing
- By MJTCPA on 07-30-11
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Billy the Kid
- The Endless Ride
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-18-07
- Language: English
- Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid, a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time....
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What Hath God Wrought
- The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
- By: Daniel Walker Howe
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 32 hrs and 50 mins
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Historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War....
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Fantastic content, faulty narration
- By Ary Shalizi on 04-12-11
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What Hath God Wrought
- The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Series: Oxford History of the United States [Publication Order], Book 6, Oxford History of the United States, Book 5
- Length: 32 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-09-09
- Language: English
- Historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War....
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The Gilded Age
- By: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
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The Gilded Age is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War....
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An American classic, beautifully narrated
- By TX lilbit on 03-31-12
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The Gilded Age
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-05-11
- Language: English
- The Gilded Age is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War....
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Land of Hope
- An Invitation to the Great American Story
- By: Wilfred M. McClay
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
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We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don’t have is a compact, inexpensive, and authoritative book that will offer to American citizens a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own country....
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An apt word in discouraging times
- By Erin Frye on 08-05-20
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Land of Hope
- An Invitation to the Great American Story
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 04-21-20
- Language: English
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We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don’t have is a compact, inexpensive, and authoritative book that will offer to American citizens a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own country....
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The Tycoons
- How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
- By: Charles R. Morris
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation....
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Good book wrong title
- By Hectoris on 10-06-16
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The Tycoons
- How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 12-16-14
- Language: English
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The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation....
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Illiberal America
- A History
- By: Steven Hahn
- Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
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If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.
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Excellent and important Am history
- By CommentDante on 04-28-24
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Illiberal America
- A History
- Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 03-19-24
- Language: English
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If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.
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The Upswing
- How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
- By: Robert D. Putnam, Shaylyn Romney Garrett - contributor
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism — Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times....
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For Progressives only. Won't make sense otherwise
- By Dennis G. on 12-19-20
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The Upswing
- How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-13-20
- Language: English
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Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism — Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times....
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President Garfield
- From Radical to Unifier
- By: CW Goodyear
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
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Over nearly two decades in Congress during a polarized era—Reconstruction and the Gilded Age—Garfield served as a peacemaker in a Republican Party and America defined by divisions. He was elected to overcome them. He was killed while trying to do so....
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A wonderful servant to the world
- By James T. Hackett on 08-15-23
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President Garfield
- From Radical to Unifier
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-04-23
- Language: English
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Over nearly two decades in Congress during a polarized era—Reconstruction and the Gilded Age—Garfield served as a peacemaker in a Republican Party and America defined by divisions. He was elected to overcome them. He was killed while trying to do so....
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Leland Stanford
- The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became California's Governor and the West's Most Famous Robber Baron
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
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Leland Stanford: The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became California’s Governor and the West’s Most Famous Robber Baron chronicles the remarkable life of Stanford....
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Short, vague and sloppy
- By S. Collins on 07-16-21
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Leland Stanford
- The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became California's Governor and the West's Most Famous Robber Baron
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 12-19-19
- Language: English
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Leland Stanford: The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became California’s Governor and the West’s Most Famous Robber Baron chronicles the remarkable life of Stanford....
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- By: Zachary D. Carter
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
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At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history....
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A must read for post COVID-19 crisis
- By Amazon Customer on 06-02-20
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-19-20
- Language: English
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At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history....
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The Curse of Beauty
- The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel
- By: James Bone
- Narrated by: Marianne Fraulo
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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The tumultuous and heartbreaking life of a world-famous model whose riveting story of beauty, fame, passion, murder, and madness in the Gilded Age captivated a nation....
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Fascinating
- By Аmazon Customer on 04-06-17
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The Curse of Beauty
- The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel
- Narrated by: Marianne Fraulo
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 08-23-16
- Language: English
- The tumultuous and heartbreaking life of a world-famous model whose riveting story of beauty, fame, passion, murder, and madness in the Gilded Age captivated a nation....
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Meet You in Hell
- Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America
- By: Les Standiford
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers' strike that transformed....
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an extended journalistic tour
- By D. Littman on 06-08-05
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Meet You in Hell
- Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 05-27-05
- Language: English
- Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers' strike that transformed....
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Diamonds and Deadlines
- A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age
- By: Betsy Prioleau
- Narrated by: Beth Hicks
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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The first major biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Leslie, titan of publishing and an unsung hero of women’s suffrage....
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Wonderful biography of forgotten gilded age publishing icon
- By Amazon Customer on 03-24-24
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Diamonds and Deadlines
- A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age
- Narrated by: Beth Hicks
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 03-29-22
- Language: English
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The first major biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Leslie, titan of publishing and an unsung hero of women’s suffrage....
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Flight of the WASP
- The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class
- By: Michael Gross
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
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For decades, writers have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America....
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Flight of the WASP
- The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 02-27-24
- Language: English
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For decades, writers have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America....
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The Last Dollar Princess
- A Young Heiress's Quest for Independence in Gilded Age America and George V's Coronation Year England
- By: Linda Bennett Pennell
- Narrated by: Ally Lane
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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It must be said. Scandal follows her family like an ever-faithful hound. No matter how hard they kick it away, it comes slinking around time-after-time....
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Disappointing
- By KB on 06-21-23
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The Last Dollar Princess
- A Young Heiress's Quest for Independence in Gilded Age America and George V's Coronation Year England
- Narrated by: Ally Lane
- Series: An American Heiress, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-16-23
- Language: English
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It must be said. Scandal follows her family like an ever-faithful hound. No matter how hard they kick it away, it comes slinking around time-after-time....
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