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    • A History of the Lone Star State
    • By: Randolph B. Campbell
    • Narrated by: Jacob Sommer
    • Length: 28 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Gone to Texas engagingly tells the story of the Lone Star State, from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago to the opening of the 21st Century....

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    • And What Is at Stake
    • By: Sarah Chayes
    • Narrated by: Sarah Chayes
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • From the prize-winning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future....

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    • The Knickerbocker Club, Book 2
    • By: Joanna Shupe
    • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson, Ryan Stone
    • Series: Knickerbocker Club, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • New York City's Gilded Age shines as bright as the power-wielding men of the Knickerbocker Club. And one pragmatic industrialist is about to learn that a man may make his own destiny, but love is a matter of fortune....

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    • Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Tecoksy
    • Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries....

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    • A History of Texas and the Texans
    • By: T. R. Fehrenbach
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 39 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 ratings
    • Here is a must-listen history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days....

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    • 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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    • A Young Heiress's Quest for Independence in Gilded Age America and George V's Coronation Year England
    • By: Linda Bennett Pennell
    • Narrated by: Ally Lane
    • Series: An American Heiress, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • It must be said. Scandal follows her family like an ever-faithful hound. No matter how hard they kick it away, it comes slinking around time-after-time....

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    • By: Shelley Gray
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Series: Chicago World's Fair Mystery, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • It’s mid-September 1893 and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning debutant of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with a dark secret. Several months ago, she endured a horrible assault at the hands of Douglass Sloane....

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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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    • Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
    • By: Annie Reed
    • Narrated by: Kate Udall
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Before there was Anna Delvey or Elizabeth Holmes, there was Cassie Chadwick. The first woman—using criminal cunning, some confidence, and a bit of charm—to bring down a federal agent, a bank, and a city's worth of men.

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    • The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
    • By: David S. Brown
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Alice Sherman Simpson
    • Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A captivating historical novel set in Gilded Age New York City, The Winthrop Agreement is about an immigrant daughter’s ascent from a miserable tenement to the heights of haute couture, driven by an insatiable hunger for a place in society and secrets she must not betray....

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    • 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City
    • By: Sam Roberts
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world’s most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it....

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    • By: Taylor Caldwell
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A saga of power, greed, and illicit love set in the Gilded Age of upstate New York....

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    • A spellbinding novel that spans the centuries
    • By: Vanessa Lind
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-24
    • Language: English
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    • Whispers of silk, echoes of secrets… In a charming 1890 riverfront town, Josephine Felch, a tenacious Gilded Age newspaper owner, solicits the ...

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    • St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
    • By: Walter Johnson
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis....

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    • 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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    • Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad - one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit US shores....

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    • The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863 - 1869
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers an historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage....

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