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    • A spellbinding novel that spans the centuries
    • By: Vanessa Lind
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-24
    • Language: English
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    • Whispers of silk, echoes of secrets… In a charming 1890 riverfront town, Josephine Felch, a tenacious Gilded Age newspaper owner, solicits the ...

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    • Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
    • Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....

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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad - one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit US shores....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • By: Taylor Caldwell
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A saga of power, greed, and illicit love set in the Gilded Age of upstate New York....

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    • 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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    • The History of Labor in the United States
    • By: J. Albert Mann
    • Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • The History of Labor in the United States is an accessible and comprehensive YA history of the way the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens.

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    • 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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    • Unemployment in the Gilded Age
    • By: Jerry Prout
    • Narrated by: Tim Toddhurst
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • By: O'Neil De Noux
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Jose Perez
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
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    • Mark Twain called it The Gilded Age, those years after the Civil War to the end of the 19th Century. It was a time of great prosperity and great poverty, a time of great opportunities and social unrest. Not a golden time but an era covered in a golden shell – gilded.

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