Gilded Age

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    • 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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    • By: Tom Chaffin
    • Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
    • Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • 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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    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 194 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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    • The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel
    • By: James Bone
    • Narrated by: Marianne Fraulo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 74 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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    • 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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    • 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 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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    • 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 Tidewater Chronicles, Book 1
    • By: Vanessa Lind
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Strecker
    • Series: Tidewater Chronicles, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In the Gilded Age boomtown of Astoria, Oregon, Jo sets out to prove herself as a girl reporter. Following the trail of a missing maid, she finds her newspaper’s publisher dead. Left in charge of the paper, she discovers danger is a lot closer than she thinks....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • By: Richard Hofstadter
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • This work is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results....

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    • 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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    • A History of Texas and the Texans
    • By: T. R. Fehrenbach
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 39 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 ratings
    • Here is a must-listen history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days....

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    • 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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