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The Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt
- By: Andrew Green
- Narrated by: John York
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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For those given the privilege of being alive during the Gilded Age of America, the expansion of the American economy was truly astounding to watch....
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The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson
- By DC on 04-04-22
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The Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Narrated by: John York
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 10-23-18
- Language: English
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For those given the privilege of being alive during the Gilded Age of America, the expansion of the American economy was truly astounding to watch....
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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend
- An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
- By: Priscilla Murolo, A.B. Chitty
- Narrated by: Holly Adams
- Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
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Praised for its "impressive even-handedness", From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review)....
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Timely.
- By Robert Croft on 09-13-23
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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend
- An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
- Narrated by: Holly Adams
- Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-24-23
- Language: English
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Praised for its "impressive even-handedness", From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review)....
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Seduced by the Light
- The Mina Miller Edison Story
- By: Alexandra Rimer
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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Seduced by the Light is the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and shaped the myth of one of the most seminal figures in America’s history. The Thomas Edison we think we know was essentially created by Mina Miller Edison....
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A Compelling Story
- By pamingram on 07-10-23
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Seduced by the Light
- The Mina Miller Edison Story
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-02-23
- Language: English
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Seduced by the Light is the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and shaped the myth of one of the most seminal figures in America’s history. The Thomas Edison we think we know was essentially created by Mina Miller Edison....
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Deception on Sable Hill
- By: Shelley Gray
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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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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I highly recommend this book
- By Rose Ruikka on 07-23-22
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Deception on Sable Hill
- 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
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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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Rivers in the Desert
- William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
- By: Margaret Leslie Davis
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi....
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Many inaccuracies-do some independent reseach
- By Nancy Pf on 05-19-24
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Rivers in the Desert
- William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-28-21
- Language: English
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Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi....
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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
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"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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People have always taken advantage of weaknesses
- By Marsha L. Woerner on 12-15-22
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Greed in the Gilded Age
- The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick
- Narrated by: Cindy Piller
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-17-22
- Language: English
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"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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Uneven Ground
- Appalachia Since 1945
- By: Ronald D Eller Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Neil Holmes
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history....
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A Solid Silver Medal
- By Marc L on 04-02-19
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Uneven Ground
- Appalachia Since 1945
- Narrated by: Neil Holmes
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-19-17
- Language: English
- Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history....
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Techlash
- Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?
- By: Tom Wheeler
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Tom Wheeler provides an accessible and visionary book that connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age....
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Techlash
- Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 11-01-23
- Language: English
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Tom Wheeler provides an accessible and visionary book that connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age....
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Shrouded in Thought Revised 2020 Edition
- Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 2
- By: N. S. Wikarski
- Narrated by: Ann Russek
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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For the two amateur sleuths, a random drowning becomes intertwined with labor riots, a national railroad strike, a medium who speaks to the dead, a blackmailer, and a murderer intent on covering his tracks by any means necessary....
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Shrouded in Thought Revised 2020 Edition
- Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 2
- Narrated by: Ann Russek
- Series: Gilded Age Chicago Mystery, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-13-21
- Language: English
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For the two amateur sleuths, a random drowning becomes intertwined with labor riots, a national railroad strike, a medium who speaks to the dead, a blackmailer, and a murderer intent on covering his tracks by any means necessary....
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Barons
- By: J. E. Dyer
- Narrated by: T. W. Ashworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Five families with an American dream. One railroad to span a nation. Empires will rise. Relationships will crumble. Collis Huntington, the last living member of the Associates, now wants to set the record straight....
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harsh realities
- By B.McGrath on 01-02-21
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Barons
- Narrated by: T. W. Ashworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-29-20
- Language: English
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Five families with an American dream. One railroad to span a nation. Empires will rise. Relationships will crumble. Collis Huntington, the last living member of the Associates, now wants to set the record straight....
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1889: The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City
- By: Michael J. Hightower
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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Hightower frames his story within the larger history of Old Oklahoma, beginning in Indian Territory, where displaced tribes and freedmen, wealthy cattlemen, and prospective homesteaders became embroiled in disputes over public land and federal government policies....
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A must read for any Oklahoma resident.
- By Dooderwear on 03-11-22
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1889: The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-30-19
- Language: English
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Hightower frames his story within the larger history of Old Oklahoma, beginning in Indian Territory, where displaced tribes and freedmen, wealthy cattlemen, and prospective homesteaders became embroiled in disputes over public land and federal government policies....
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The Politicians and the Egalitarians
- The Hidden History of American Politics
- By: Sean Wilentz
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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Historian Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that together reveal a clearer, much-needed vision of American political history....
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Alright
- By Joshua J. Wood on 08-13-16
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The Politicians and the Egalitarians
- The Hidden History of American Politics
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 05-17-16
- Language: English
- Historian Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that together reveal a clearer, much-needed vision of American political history....
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Taming the Octopus
- The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation
- By: Kyle Edward Williams
- Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.
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Informative and gripping
- By Emily Williams on 05-09-24
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Taming the Octopus
- The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation
- Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-20-24
- Language: English
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The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.
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Saving America's Cities
- Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
- By: Lizabeth Cohen
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
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In Saving America's Cities, Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests....
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Timely
- By Alex Fuller on 10-13-23
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Saving America's Cities
- Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-23-20
- Language: English
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In Saving America's Cities, Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests....
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If This Is Love
- The Darlingtons, Book 1
- By: Naomi Finley
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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The year 1870. The onset of the Gilded Age. Times are changing, and so are the ideals centered around women, but Kat Darlington’s troubles go much deeper than the world’s inequality, and they occur closer to home....
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If This Is Love
- The Darlingtons, Book 1
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Series: Darlingtons, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-06-23
- Language: English
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The year 1870. The onset of the Gilded Age. Times are changing, and so are the ideals centered around women, but Kat Darlington’s troubles go much deeper than the world’s inequality, and they occur closer to home....
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XIT: A Story of Land, Cattle, and Capital in Texas and Montana
- By: Michael M. Miller
- Narrated by: Chuck Buell
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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The Texas state constitution of 1876 set aside 3,000,000 acres of public land in the Texas Panhandle in exchange for construction of the state’s monumental red-granite capitol in Austin....
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A bit off the mark?
- By JDR on 03-28-22
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XIT: A Story of Land, Cattle, and Capital in Texas and Montana
- Narrated by: Chuck Buell
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-22-21
- Language: English
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The Texas state constitution of 1876 set aside 3,000,000 acres of public land in the Texas Panhandle in exchange for construction of the state’s monumental red-granite capitol in Austin....
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American History
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Paul Boyer
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating account of politics, diplomacy, and war as well as the full spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific developments that shaped our country....
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American History
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-15-23
- Language: English
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Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating account of politics, diplomacy, and war as well as the full spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific developments that shaped our country....
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New York
- The Novel
- By: Edward Rutherfurd
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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The best-selling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day. Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga....
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Don't choose the abridged version
- By JoAnn on 11-22-09
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New York
- The Novel
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 11-10-09
- Language: English
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The best-selling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day. Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga....
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If a Poem Could Live and Breathe
- A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love
- By: Mary Calvi
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy....
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A powerful love story!
- By 3M on 08-25-23
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If a Poem Could Live and Breathe
- A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 02-14-23
- Language: English
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If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy....
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The Fall of White City
- Revised 2020 Edition (Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 1)
- By: N.S. Wikarski
- Narrated by: Lucinda Gainey
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Chicago in the 1890s is the fastest growing metropolis in America. An eccentric heiress and a cub reporter find themselves repeatedly drawn into the hidden world of intrigue and murder that lurks within the shadows of the White City....
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Chicago 1893: Hull House " White City" Murder
- By E.Snurd on 08-14-22
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The Fall of White City
- Revised 2020 Edition (Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 1)
- Narrated by: Lucinda Gainey
- Series: Gilded Age Chicago Mystery, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 02-01-21
- Language: English
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Chicago in the 1890s is the fastest growing metropolis in America. An eccentric heiress and a cub reporter find themselves repeatedly drawn into the hidden world of intrigue and murder that lurks within the shadows of the White City....
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