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    • Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
    • By: Julie Carr
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Concise History of America
    • By: Louis P. Masur
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • The Darlingtons, Book 1
    • By: Naomi Finley
    • Narrated by: April Doty
    • Series: Darlingtons, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • 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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    • The Mina Miller Edison Story
    • By: Alexandra Rimer
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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 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
    • Release date: 10-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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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    • Revised 2020 Edition (Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 1)
    • By: N.S. Wikarski
    • Narrated by: Lucinda Gainey
    • Series: Gilded Age Chicago Mystery, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
    • By: Leon Fink
    • Narrated by: Ralph Morocco
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • From the end of the 19th century through the first decades of the 20th, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change....

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    • From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter (True Crime History)
    • By: Thomas Crowl
    • Narrated by: Chaz Allen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and “one of the top 10 imposters of all time”, according to TIME magazine....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 02-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • 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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    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
    • Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • One of the first major American novels to satirize the political milieu of Washington, and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name....

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