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  • The Last American Aristocrat Audiobook By David S. Brown cover art

    • The Last American Aristocrat

    • 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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  • Four Threats Audiobook By Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman cover art

    • Four Threats

    • The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
    • By: Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

    • While many Americans despair of the current state of US politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that to the contrary, the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy....

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  • The Impostor Heiress Audiobook By Annie Reed cover art

    • The Impostor Heiress

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

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  • When Affirmative Action Was White Audiobook By Ira Katznelson cover art

    • When Affirmative Action Was White

    • An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
    • By: Ira Katznelson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review), Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of 20th century American history....

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  • If a Poem Could Live and Breathe Audiobook By Mary Calvi cover art

    • If a Poem Could Live and Breathe

    • A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love
    • By: Mary Calvi
    • Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy....

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  • Taming the Octopus Audiobook By Kyle Edward Williams cover art

    • Taming the Octopus

    • The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation
    • By: Kyle Edward Williams
    • Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.

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  • The Beneficiary Audiobook By Janny Scott cover art

    • The Beneficiary

    • 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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  • The Broken Heart of America Audiobook By Walter Johnson cover art

    • The Broken Heart of America

    • 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 253 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 Winthrop Agreement Audiobook By Alice Sherman Simpson cover art

    • The Winthrop Agreement

    • A Novel
    • By: Alice Sherman Simpson
    • Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 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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  • Meet You in Hell Audiobook By Les Standiford cover art

    • Meet You in Hell

    • 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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  • Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (AmazonClassics Edition) Audiobook By Frederick Douglass cover art

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  • Baron Audiobook By Joanna Shupe cover art

    • Baron

    • 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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  • Cuba Libre Audiobook By Philip Brenner, Peter Eisner cover art

    • Cuba Libre

    • A 500-Year Quest for Independence
    • By: Philip Brenner, Peter Eisner
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • This timely book provides a balanced, deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since 1492. Tracing the island's history over 500 years....

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  • The Market Revolution Audiobook By Charles Sellers cover art

    • The Market Revolution

    • Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
    • By: Charles Sellers
    • Narrated by: Joseph M. Clarke
    • Length: 26 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians, Charles Sellers, offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and written with grace and style, this volume provides a sweeping political....

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  • Greed in the Gilded Age Audiobook By William Elliott Hazelgrove cover art

    • Greed in the Gilded Age

    • The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick
    • By: William Elliott Hazelgrove
    • Narrated by: Cindy Piller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • "Millionaire" had just entered the American lexicon and Cassie Chadwick was front page news, becoming a media sensation before mass media, even eclipsing President Roosevelt’s inauguration....

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  • Saving America's Cities Audiobook By Lizabeth Cohen cover art

    • Saving America's Cities

    • Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
    • By: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • In Saving America's Cities, Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests....

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  • From Generosity to Justice Audiobook By Darren Walker cover art

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  • A New History of the American South Audiobook By W. Fitzhugh Brundage - Edited by, Laura F. Edwards - Edited by, Jon F. Sensb

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  • All the Great Prizes Audiobook By John Taliaferro cover art

    • All the Great Prizes

    • The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
    • By: John Taliaferro
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 360 ratings
    • John Taliaferro’s brilliant biography captures the extraordinary life of Hay, one of the most amazing figures in American history, and restores him to his rightful place....

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