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Four Threats
- The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
- By: Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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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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Very informative
- By Angela Fobbs on 12-31-20
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Four Threats
- The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 08-11-20
- Language: English
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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
- The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
- By: David S. Brown
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 14 hrs
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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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outstanding book, highly recommend it
- By D. Littman on 02-19-21
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The Last American Aristocrat
- The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 11-24-20
- Language: English
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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
- By: Alan Axelrod
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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“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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Why go partisan?
- By James Schoening on 02-04-23
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100 Turning Points in American History
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-30-22
- Language: English
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“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
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- By: Daniel Okrent
- Narrated by: Daniel Okrent
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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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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Strictly an account
- By Linda on 06-05-10
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Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- Narrated by: Daniel Okrent
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-21-10
- Language: English
- 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
- A Short History of Barbecue in America
- By: Jim Auchmutey
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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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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the history of bbq
- By Bobbyo on 04-07-24
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Smokelore
- A Short History of Barbecue in America
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 10-18-19
- Language: English
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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
- 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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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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Grand Central
- How a Train Station Transformed America
- By: Sam Roberts, Pete Hamill - foreword
- Narrated by: Sam Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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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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Nice Trivia but not much insight into history
- By Ira David Socol on 09-25-21
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Grand Central
- How a Train Station Transformed America
- Narrated by: Sam Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-24-13
- Language: English
- 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
- 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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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
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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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Wonderful book
- By John Cashman on 06-12-20
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Citizen Reporters
- S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-18-20
- Language: English
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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
- By: Derek Dwight Anderson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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This volume in a series of world history case studies analyzes the life of the uncompromising Black labor leader and anarchist Lucy Parsons. ...
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Understanding Race, Labor, and Radicalism in the United States from the Unusual Perspective of Lucy Parsons
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
- This volume in a series of world history case studies analyzes the life of the uncompromising Black labor leader and anarchist Lucy Parsons. ...
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Fraud
- An American History from Barnum to Madoff
- By: Edward J. Balleisen
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
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The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers....
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Encyclopedic; a bit dry in tone, but informative
- By Philo on 04-10-17
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Fraud
- An American History from Barnum to Madoff
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 02-01-17
- Language: English
- The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers....
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Lincolnomics
- How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
- By: John F. Wasik
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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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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Lincolnomics
- How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
- 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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The Age of Innocence
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Zöe Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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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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Conventions
- By Suzy Gebhardt Clarke on 04-01-21
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The Age of Innocence
- Narrated by: Zöe Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 02-25-20
- Language: English
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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
- The Surprising Truth about the 'Real' America
- By: Dante Chinni, James Gimpel
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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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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A little bit interesting, but largly pointless
- By Blake on 03-02-14
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Our Patchwork Nation
- The Surprising Truth about the 'Real' America
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-30-10
- Language: English
- 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
- 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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- 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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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
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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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So simple and so clear
- By Tim on 07-15-22
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Going Big
- FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy
- Narrated by: Robert Kuttner
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-26-22
- Language: English
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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
- A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James “Jubilee Jim” Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure....
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Dull and lifeless
- By Jon Weimer on 07-29-11
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The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield
- A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
- Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 05-31-11
- Language: English
- Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James “Jubilee Jim” Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure....
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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
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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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A Sobering Account of Labor and Race in American
- By Capt. Greg on 06-04-22
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For Jobs and Freedom
- Race and Labor in America Since 1865
- Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 02-25-22
- Language: English
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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
- Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel
- By: Maryjean Wall
- Narrated by: Caroline Shively
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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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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I didn't want a book on horses and racing
- By Marilyn Segrest on 05-08-22
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Madam Belle
- Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel
- Narrated by: Caroline Shively
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-12-15
- Language: English
- 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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