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  • American Heiresses of the Gilded Age Audiobook By Melissa Ziobro, The Great Courses cover art

    • American Heiresses of the Gilded Age

    • By: Melissa Ziobro, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Melissa Ziobro
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 304 ratings

    • Welcome to the era of true marriages of convenience. Discover the reality of trading someone’s hand in marriage, such as an American heiress, in exchange for money, power, or political clout through compelling history lectures....

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  • What Hath God Wrought Audiobook By Daniel Walker Howe cover art

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  • Curse of Riches Audiobook By Claire Prentice cover art

    • Curse of Riches

    • By: Claire Prentice
    • Narrated by: Claire Prentice, Hillary Huber
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings

    • 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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  • Water to the Angels Audiobook By Les Standiford cover art

    • Water to the Angels

    • William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • In 1907 Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles....

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  • Billy the Kid Audiobook By Michael Wallis cover art

    • Billy the Kid

    • The Endless Ride
    • By: Michael Wallis
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • 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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  • Illiberal America Audiobook By Steven Hahn cover art

    • Illiberal America

    • A History
    • By: Steven Hahn
    • Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
    • Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • 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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  • Plutocrats Audiobook By Chrystia Freeland cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 10-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • 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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  • Gun Barons Audiobook By John Bainbridge Jr. cover art

    • Gun Barons

    • The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them
    • By: John Bainbridge Jr.
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

    • Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at a crucial time in United States history....

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  • The Tycoons Audiobook By Charles R. Morris cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 12-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 317 ratings

    • 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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  • The Gilded Age Audiobook By Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner cover art

    • The Gilded Age

    • By: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • 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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  • The Edge of Anarchy Audiobook By Jack Kelly cover art

    • The Edge of Anarchy

    • The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
    • By: Jack Kelly
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings

    • The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history....

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  • President Garfield Audiobook By CW Goodyear cover art

    • President Garfield

    • From Radical to Unifier
    • By: CW Goodyear
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings

    • 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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  • Deception on Sable Hill Audiobook By Shelley Gray cover art

    • Deception on Sable Hill

    • By: Shelley Gray
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Series: Chicago World's Fair Mystery, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • It’s mid-September 1893 and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning debutant of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with a dark secret. Several months ago, she endured a horrible assault at the hands of Douglass Sloane....

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  • The Price of Peace Audiobook By Zachary D. Carter cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 689 ratings

    • 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 Upswing Audiobook By Robert D. Putnam, Shaylyn Romney Garrett - contributor cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings

    • 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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  • The Upswing Audiobook By Robert D. Putnam cover art

    • The Upswing

    • How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
    • By: Robert D. Putnam
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • In a sweeping overview of more than a century of history, drawing on his inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam analyses a remarkable confluence of trends that brought us from an "I" society to a "We" society and then back again....

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  • Meet You in Hell Audiobook By Les Standiford cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 05-27-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • 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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  • The Impostor Heiress Audiobook By Annie Reed cover art

    • The Impostor Heiress

    • Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
    • By: Annie Reed
    • Narrated by: Kate Udall
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Before there was Anna Delvey or Elizabeth Holmes, there was Cassie Chadwick. The first woman—using criminal cunning, some confidence, and a bit of charm—to bring down a federal agent, a bank, and a city's worth of men.

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  • Diamonds and Deadlines Audiobook By Betsy Prioleau cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • 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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  • Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons Audiobook By Charlotte Gray cover art

    • Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons

    • The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
    • By: Charlotte Gray
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Impeccably researched and filled with intriguing social insights, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons is a captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray....

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