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    • By: J. E. Dyer
    • Narrated by: T. W. Ashworth
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Five families with an American dream. One railroad to span a nation. Empires will rise. Relationships will crumble. Collis Huntington, the last living member of the Associates, now wants to set the record straight....

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    • Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: John Dossett
    • Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry....

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    • Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital
    • By: Claire Goldstene
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Goldstene uses a biographical approach to focus on key figures along a spectrum of political belief as they struggled to reconcile the inherent contradictions of equal opportunity....

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    • By: Upton Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • In 1925, the greatest muckraking journalist and advocate for the working man, Upton Sinclair, believed that the cause in which he believed needed to be clearly and concisely explained - in plain English - for the benefit of the American worker....

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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 11 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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    • Race and Labor in America Since 1865
    • By: Robert H. Zieger
    • Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 describes the African American struggle to obtain equal rights in the workplace and organized labor's response to their demands....

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    • By: Ryan Webb
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • In the final decades of the 19th century, America experienced rapid industrial growth, corporate mergers, an influx of immigrants and a rise in ...

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    • A Study in Social Protest
    • By: Floyd Dell
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This insightful and unsparing biography of Sinclair was written by Dell when Sinclair was 48 years old and in mid career. The spectacular success of The Jungle was behind him, and he had already become a world famous celebrity writer....

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    • Unemployment in the Gilded Age
    • By: Jerry Prout
    • Narrated by: Tim Toddhurst
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol....

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    • A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism
    • By: James McGrath Morris
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Charles E. Chapin, the notorious editor-tyrant of the New York Evening World, made headlines himself after murdering his wife of 39 years....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • By: O'Neil De Noux
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Jose Perez
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
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    • Mark Twain called it The Gilded Age, those years after the Civil War to the end of the 19th Century. It was a time of great prosperity and great poverty, a time of great opportunities and social unrest. Not a golden time but an era covered in a golden shell – gilded.

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    • Oscar Wilde in North America
    • By: Roy Morris Jr.
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A chronicle of his sensational eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age....

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    • Cliff Walk Courtships, Book 1
    • By: Cecily K. Wolfe
    • Narrated by: Dana DiAngelo
    • Series: Cliff Walk Courtships, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Josie is content as a maid in a rich cottager's mansion along the Cliff Walk of beautiful Newport, Rhode Island, but the arrival of her employer's handsome, pensive son tempts her into a relationship that while chaste, is forbidden between their social classes in the Gilded Age of 1893....

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    • The Rapid Urbanization and Development in 19th Century USA
    • By: Kelly Mass
    • Narrated by: Chris Newman
    • Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Gilded Age was a period in American history that covered the late 19th century, from the 1870s till around 1900. The Gilded Age was a period of great financial development in the United States, specifically in the North and West....

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    • History on the Half Shell
    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster....

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    • The Life and Times of a Philadelphia Entrepreneur
    • By: Bill Double
    • Narrated by: Scott Carrico
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Introduced at the 1876 Centennial Exposition and powered by an historic advertising campaign, Hires Root Beer - launched 10 years before Coca-Cola - blazed the trail for development of the American soft drink industry. Its inventor, Charles Elmer Hires....

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