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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 5,650 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 965 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 482 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 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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    • 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 1,033 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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.

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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 265 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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    • 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 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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    • 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 2,320 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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    • 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 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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    • 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 Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
    • By: James Green
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country....

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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 1,765 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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    • 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 21 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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    • A Captivating Guide to an Era in American History That Overlaps the Reconstruction Era and Coincides with Parts of the Victorian Era in Britain Along with the Belle Époque in France
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United States was a major powerhouse since its early days. However, the truth is far from it. This transformation from a weak and relatively poor dominion into a world-class international power was undoubtedly a long process....

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