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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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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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Mud, Blood, and Ghosts
- Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
- By: Julie Carr
- Narrated by: Julie Carr
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family’s history through archival documents to draw connections between US agrarian populism, spiritualism, and eugenics....
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Mud, Blood, and Ghosts
- Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
- Narrated by: Julie Carr
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-22-23
- Language: English
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Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family’s history through archival documents to draw connections between US agrarian populism, spiritualism, and eugenics....
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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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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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The Sum of Our Dreams
- A Concise History of America
- By: Louis P. Masur
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
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In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet compact history of America from its beginnings to the current moment....
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Excellent
- By Tad Davis on 06-11-21
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The Sum of Our Dreams
- A Concise History of America
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-03-20
- Language: English
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In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet compact history of America from its beginnings to the current moment....
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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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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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The House That Sugarcane Built: The Lousiana Burguieres
- By: Donna McGee Onebane
- Narrated by: Peter Bierma
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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When 27-year-old Parisian immigrant Eugène D. Burguières landed at the Port of New Orleans in 1831, one of the oldest Louisiana dynasties began....
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The House That Sugarcane Built: The Lousiana Burguieres
- Narrated by: Peter Bierma
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-06-15
- Language: English
- When 27-year-old Parisian immigrant Eugène D. Burguières landed at the Port of New Orleans in 1831, one of the oldest Louisiana dynasties began....
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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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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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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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These United States
- A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
- By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Thomas J. Sugrue
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 28 hrs and 48 mins
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A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail....
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These United States
- A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 28 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-19-15
- Language: English
- A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail....
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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 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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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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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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Business Tycoon Biographies
- Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, & Henry Clay Frick: The Story of America’s Oil and Steel Founding Fathers
- By: Richard Milton
- Narrated by: John Harrison Gass
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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You are one click away from discovering the biographies of America’s oil and steel founding fathers, Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, and Henry Clay Frick, that led to the Gilded Age....
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Business Tycoon Biographies
- Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, & Henry Clay Frick: The Story of America’s Oil and Steel Founding Fathers
- Narrated by: John Harrison Gass
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 02-24-21
- Language: English
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You are one click away from discovering the biographies of America’s oil and steel founding fathers, Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, and Henry Clay Frick, that led to the Gilded Age....
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Jay Gould
- The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became America’s Most Notorious Robber Baron
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Of all the men labeled as robber barons during the Gilded Age, nobody was as notorious during his time as Jason Gould. Gould studied every aspect he could of the booming railroad industry of the Civil War era, and then parlayed his money and connections to end up on the right side of the stock market crash in 1869.
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Jay Gould
- The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became America’s Most Notorious Robber Baron
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-12-18
- Language: English
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Of all the men labeled as robber barons during the Gilded Age, nobody was as notorious during his time as Jason Gould. Gould studied every aspect he could of the booming railroad industry of the Civil War era, and then parlayed his money and connections to end up on the right side of the stock market crash in 1869.
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Upton Sinclair
- A Study in Social Protest
- By: Floyd Dell
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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This insightful and unsparing biography of Sinclair was written by Dell when Sinclair was 48 years old and in mid career. The spectacular success of The Jungle was behind him, and he had already become a world famous celebrity writer....
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Well done! interesting perspective.
- By OpenTheBooks&Listen on 01-27-23
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Upton Sinclair
- A Study in Social Protest
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-20-23
- Language: English
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This insightful and unsparing biography of Sinclair was written by Dell when Sinclair was 48 years old and in mid career. The spectacular success of The Jungle was behind him, and he had already become a world famous celebrity writer....
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