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    • 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 35 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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    • John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
    • By: Scott Reynolds Nelson
    • Narrated by: Panama Jackson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the true story of the man behind the iconic American hero, telling the poignant tale of a young Virginia convict who died working on one of the most dangerous enterprises of the time: the first rail route through the Appalachian Mountains....

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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 290 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 Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class
    • By: Michael Gross
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • For decades, writers have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America....

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    • 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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    • By: Richard Hofstadter
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • This work is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results....

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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 33 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 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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    • 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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    • Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
    • By: Janny Scott
    • Narrated by: Janny Scott
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 220 ratings
    • A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance - financial, cultural, genetic - conspired in one person's self-destruction....

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    • 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 103 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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    • The Tidewater Chronicles, Book 1
    • By: Vanessa Lind
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Strecker
    • Series: Tidewater Chronicles, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In the Gilded Age boomtown of Astoria, Oregon, Jo sets out to prove herself as a girl reporter. Following the trail of a missing maid, she finds her newspaper’s publisher dead. Left in charge of the paper, she discovers danger is a lot closer than she thinks....

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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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    • William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
    • By: Margaret Leslie Davis
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 196 ratings
    • Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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