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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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 Long Gilded Age
- American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
- By: Leon Fink
- Narrated by: Ralph Morocco
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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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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Great book, terrrrible reader
- By Melanie Winters on 06-23-16
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The Long Gilded Age
- American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
- Narrated by: Ralph Morocco
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-26-16
- Language: English
- 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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Queen of the Con
- From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter (True Crime History)
- By: Thomas Crowl
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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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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Boring.
- By Kristen McGill on 12-20-23
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Queen of the Con
- From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter (True Crime History)
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 07-27-22
- Language: English
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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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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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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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The Gilded Age
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
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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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The Gilded Age
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 08-03-23
- Language: English
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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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