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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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  • 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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  • Railroaded Audiobook By Richard White cover art

    • Railroaded

    • The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Richard White
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 139 ratings

    • Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age that shows history to be rooted in failure and success....

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  • The Broken Heart of America Audiobook By Walter Johnson cover art

    • The Broken Heart of America

    • St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
    • By: Walter Johnson
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings

    • A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis....

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  • Flight of the WASP Audiobook By Michael Gross cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • 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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  • Clarence Darrow Audiobook By John A. Farrell cover art

    • Clarence Darrow

    • Attorney for the Damned
    • By: John A. Farrell
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 20 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind.....

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  • When Affirmative Action Was White Audiobook By Ira Katznelson cover art

    • When Affirmative Action Was White

    • An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
    • By: Ira Katznelson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review), Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of 20th century American history....

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  • The Beneficiary Audiobook By Janny Scott cover art

    • The Beneficiary

    • Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
    • By: Janny Scott
    • Narrated by: Janny Scott
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 220 ratings

    • A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance - financial, cultural, genetic - conspired in one person's self-destruction....

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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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  • Empire: A Novel Audiobook By Gore Vidal cover art

    • Empire: A Novel

    • Narratives of Empire, Book 4
    • By: Gore Vidal
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: Narratives of Empire, Book 4
    • Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings

    • While America struggles to define its destiny, beautiful and ambitious Caroline Sanford fights to control her own fate. One of Vidal’s most inspired creations, she is an embodiment of the complex, vigorous young nation....

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  • American Colossus Audiobook By H. W. Brands cover art

    • American Colossus

    • The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 279 ratings

    • In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power....

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  • On Corruption in America Audiobook By Sarah Chayes cover art

    • On Corruption in America

    • And What Is at Stake
    • By: Sarah Chayes
    • Narrated by: Sarah Chayes
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings

    • From the prize-winning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future....

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  • The Last Dollar Princess Audiobook By Linda Bennett Pennell cover art

    • 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
    • Series: An American Heiress, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • The Richest Woman in America Audiobook By Janet Wallach cover art

    • The Richest Woman in America

    • Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
    • By: Janet Wallach
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • A captivating biography of America's first female tycoon, Hetty Green, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time....

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  • Death in the Haymarket Audiobook By James Green cover art

    • Death in the Haymarket

    • A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
    • By: James Green
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings

    • On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country....

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  • The Progressive Era Audiobook By Murray N. Rothbard cover art

    • The Progressive Era

    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Graham Wright
    • Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings

    • Rothbard's posthumous masterpiece is the definitive book on the Progressives. It will soon be the must read study of this dreadful time in our past (from the foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano)....

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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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