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  • Four Threats Audiobook By Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman cover art

    • Four Threats

    • The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
    • By: Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

    • While many Americans despair of the current state of US politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that to the contrary, the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy....

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  • The Last American Aristocrat Audiobook By David S. Brown cover art

    • The Last American Aristocrat

    • The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
    • By: David S. Brown
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings

    • A “marvelous … compelling” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams - one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States’ dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation....

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  • 100 Turning Points in American History Audiobook By Alan Axelrod cover art

    • 100 Turning Points in American History

    • By: Alan Axelrod
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • “History is just one damn thing after another.” This book argues that history is not about “things” at all but is all about turning points—the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures on which the shape of a nation’s life—our lives—depends....

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  • Last Call Audiobook By Daniel Okrent cover art

    • Last Call

    • The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
    • By: Daniel Okrent
    • Narrated by: Daniel Okrent
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent's rank as a major American writer....

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  • Smokelore Audiobook By Jim Auchmutey cover art

    • Smokelore

    • 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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  • Uneven Ground Audiobook By Ronald D Eller Ph.D. cover art

    • Uneven Ground

    • Appalachia Since 1945
    • By: Ronald D Eller Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Neil Holmes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history....

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  • XIT: A Story of Land, Cattle, and Capital in Texas and Montana Audiobook By Michael M. Miller cover art

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  • Grand Central Audiobook By Sam Roberts, Pete Hamill - foreword cover art

    • Grand Central

    • How a Train Station Transformed America
    • By: Sam Roberts, Pete Hamill - foreword
    • Narrated by: Sam Roberts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • A rich, illustrated - and entertaining - history of the iconic Grand Central Terminal, from one of New York City's favorite writers, just in time to celebrate the train station's 100th anniversary....

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  • Greed in the Gilded Age Audiobook By William Elliott Hazelgrove cover art

    • Greed in the Gilded Age

    • The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick
    • By: William Elliott Hazelgrove
    • Narrated by: Cindy Piller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • "Millionaire" had just entered the American lexicon and Cassie Chadwick was front page news, becoming a media sensation before mass media, even eclipsing President Roosevelt’s inauguration....

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  • Citizen Reporters Audiobook By Stephanie Gorton cover art

    • Citizen Reporters

    • S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America
    • By: Stephanie Gorton
    • Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

    • A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm - as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America....

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  • Understanding Race, Labor, and Radicalism in the United States from the Unusual Perspective of Lucy Parsons Audiobook By Dere

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  • Fraud Audiobook By Edward J. Balleisen cover art

    • Fraud

    • An American History from Barnum to Madoff
    • By: Edward J. Balleisen
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers....

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  • Lincolnomics Audiobook By John F. Wasik cover art

    • Lincolnomics

    • How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
    • By: John F. Wasik
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Lincolnomics revives the disremembered history of how Lincoln paved the way for Eisenhower's interstate highways and FDR's social amenities....

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  • The Age of Innocence Audiobook By Edith Wharton cover art

    • The Age of Innocence

    • 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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  • Our Patchwork Nation Audiobook By Dante Chinni, James Gimpel cover art

    • Our Patchwork Nation

    • The Surprising Truth about the 'Real' America
    • By: Dante Chinni, James Gimpel
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In a climate of culture wars and tremendous economic uncertainty, America is often reduced to a simplistic schism between red states and blue states. But that is an oversimplification....

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  • The Politicians and the Egalitarians Audiobook By Sean Wilentz cover art

    • The Politicians and the Egalitarians

    • 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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  • Going Big Audiobook By Robert Kuttner, Joseph E. Stiglitz - foreword cover art

    • Going Big

    • 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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  • The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield Audiobook By H. W. Brands cover art

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  • For Jobs and Freedom Audiobook By Robert H. Zieger cover art

    • For Jobs and Freedom

    • 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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  • Madam Belle Audiobook By Maryjean Wall cover art

    • Madam Belle

    • 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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