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    • The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
    • By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
    • Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,646 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times best-selling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty - his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts....

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    • The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home
    • By: Denise Kiernan
    • Narrated by: Denise Kiernan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 959 ratings
    • The fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore - the largest, grandest residence ever built in the United States....

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    • By: Eleanor Roosevelt
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 481 ratings
    • A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt....

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    • The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
    • By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
    • Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,030 ratings
    • The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune....

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    • The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
    • By: Margalit Fox
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.

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    • Appalachia Since 1945
    • By: Ronald D Eller Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Neil Holmes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history....

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    • A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
    • By: Mike Wallace
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Series: Gotham, Book 2
    • Length: 53 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale....

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    • The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Richard White
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age that shows history to be rooted in failure and success....

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    • A History of the United States
    • By: Jill Lepore
    • Narrated by: Jill Lepore
    • Length: 29 hrs
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,317 ratings
    • In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them....

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    • The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power....

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    • 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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    • A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in our history....

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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 24 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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    • 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 82 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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    • A History of New York City to 1898
    • By: Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Series: Gotham, Book 1
    • Length: 67 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898....

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    • 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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    • By: Edmund Morris
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
    • Series: Theodore Roosevelt, Book 2
    • Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,763 ratings
    • Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States....

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