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  • Gun Barons Audiobook By John Bainbridge Jr. cover art

    • Gun Barons

    • The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them
    • By: John Bainbridge Jr.
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

    • Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at a crucial time in United States history....

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  • The Richest Woman in America Audiobook By Janet Wallach cover art

    • The Richest Woman in America

    • Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
    • By: Janet Wallach
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • A captivating biography of America's first female tycoon, Hetty Green, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time....

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  • Billy the Kid Audiobook By Michael Wallis cover art

    • Billy the Kid

    • The Endless Ride
    • By: Michael Wallis
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid, a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time....

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  • President Garfield Audiobook By CW Goodyear cover art

    • President Garfield

    • From Radical to Unifier
    • By: CW Goodyear
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings

    • Over nearly two decades in Congress during a polarized era—Reconstruction and the Gilded Age—Garfield served as a peacemaker in a Republican Party and America defined by divisions. He was elected to overcome them. He was killed while trying to do so....

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  • Water to the Angels Audiobook By Les Standiford cover art

    • Water to the Angels

    • William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • In 1907 Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles....

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  • The Tycoons Audiobook By Charles R. Morris cover art

    • The Tycoons

    • How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
    • By: Charles R. Morris
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 316 ratings

    • The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation....

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  • Shrouded in Thought Revised 2020 Edition Audiobook By N. S. Wikarski cover art

    • Shrouded in Thought Revised 2020 Edition

    • Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 2
    • By: N. S. Wikarski
    • Narrated by: Ann Russek
    • Series: Gilded Age Chicago Mystery, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • For the two amateur sleuths, a random drowning becomes intertwined with labor riots, a national railroad strike, a medium who speaks to the dead, a blackmailer, and a murderer intent on covering his tracks by any means necessary....

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  • Plutocrats Audiobook By Chrystia Freeland cover art

    • Plutocrats

    • The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
    • By: Chrystia Freeland
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically....

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  • What Hath God Wrought Audiobook By Daniel Walker Howe cover art

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  • Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons Audiobook By Charlotte Gray cover art

    • Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons

    • The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
    • By: Charlotte Gray
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Impeccably researched and filled with intriguing social insights, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons is a captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray....

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  • The Price of Peace Audiobook By Zachary D. Carter cover art

    • The Price of Peace

    • Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
    • By: Zachary D. Carter
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 689 ratings

    • At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history....

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  • The Edge of Anarchy Audiobook By Jack Kelly cover art

    • The Edge of Anarchy

    • The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
    • By: Jack Kelly
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings

    • The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history....

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  • Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire Audiobook By Tom Chaffin cover art

    • Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire

    • By: Tom Chaffin
    • Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
    • Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • The career of John Charles Frémont (1813-90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its 18th-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin's biography demonstrates Frémont's vital importance to the history of American empire....

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  • The Upswing Audiobook By Robert D. Putnam, Shaylyn Romney Garrett - contributor cover art

    • The Upswing

    • How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
    • By: Robert D. Putnam, Shaylyn Romney Garrett - contributor
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings

    • Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism — Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times....

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  • Death in the Haymarket Audiobook By James Green cover art

    • Death in the Haymarket

    • A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
    • By: James Green
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings

    • On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country....

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  • The Bully Pulpit Audiobook By Doris Kearns Goodwin cover art

    • The Bully Pulpit

    • 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 195 ratings
    • Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....

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  • Diamonds and Deadlines Audiobook By Betsy Prioleau cover art

    • Diamonds and Deadlines

    • A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age
    • By: Betsy Prioleau
    • Narrated by: Beth Hicks
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • The first major biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Leslie, titan of publishing and an unsung hero of women’s suffrage....

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  • The Upswing Audiobook By Robert D. Putnam cover art

    • The Upswing

    • How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
    • By: Robert D. Putnam
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • In a sweeping overview of more than a century of history, drawing on his inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam analyses a remarkable confluence of trends that brought us from an "I" society to a "We" society and then back again....

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  • City of Big Shoulders: Second Edition Audiobook By Robert G. Spinney cover art

    • City of Big Shoulders: Second Edition

    • A History of Chicago
    • By: Robert G. Spinney
    • Narrated by: Doug McDonald
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

    • City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600's to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city....

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  • Empire: A Novel Audiobook By Gore Vidal cover art

    • Empire: A Novel

    • Narratives of Empire, Book 4
    • By: Gore Vidal
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: Narratives of Empire, Book 4
    • Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings

    • While America struggles to define its destiny, beautiful and ambitious Caroline Sanford fights to control her own fate. One of Vidal’s most inspired creations, she is an embodiment of the complex, vigorous young nation....

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