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  • Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire Audiobook By Tom Chaffin cover art

    • Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire

    • 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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  • The Upswing Audiobook By Robert D. Putnam, Shaylyn Romney Garrett - contributor cover art

    • The Upswing

    • 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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  • American Heiresses of the Gilded Age Audiobook By Melissa Ziobro, The Great Courses cover art

    • American Heiresses of the Gilded Age

    • By: Melissa Ziobro, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Melissa Ziobro
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 305 ratings

    • Welcome to the era of true marriages of convenience. Discover the reality of trading someone’s hand in marriage, such as an American heiress, in exchange for money, power, or political clout through compelling history lectures....

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  • Empty Mansions Audiobook By Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Jr. cover art

    • Empty Mansions

    • The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
    • By: Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Jr.
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,442 ratings
    • When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly 60 years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history....

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  • The Upswing Audiobook By Robert D. Putnam cover art

    • The Upswing

    • 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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  • Deception on Sable Hill Audiobook By Shelley Gray cover art

    • Deception on Sable Hill

    • 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 22 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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  • Billy the Kid Audiobook By Michael Wallis cover art

    • Billy the Kid

    • The Endless Ride
    • By: Michael Wallis
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid, a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time....

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  • The Shanghai Secret Audiobook By Vanessa Lind cover art

    • The Shanghai Secret

    • 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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  • What Hath God Wrought Audiobook By Daniel Walker Howe cover art

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  • Death in the Haymarket Audiobook By James Green cover art

    • Death in the Haymarket

    • 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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  • The Gilded Age Audiobook By Captivating History cover art

    • The Gilded Age

    • 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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  • Illiberal America Audiobook By Steven Hahn cover art

    • Illiberal America

    • A History
    • By: Steven Hahn
    • Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
    • Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.

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  • Curse of Riches Audiobook By Claire Prentice cover art

    • Curse of Riches

    • By: Claire Prentice
    • Narrated by: Claire Prentice, Hillary Huber
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings

    • Claire Prentice has prised open the door of the Wendels’ Fifth Avenue mansion—dubbed “the house of mystery” by the press—to reveal a fascinating and dysfunctional family imprisoned in a gilded cage....

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  • The Price of Peace Audiobook By Zachary D. Carter cover art

    • The Price of Peace

    • Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
    • By: Zachary D. Carter
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 691 ratings

    • At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history....

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  • President Garfield Audiobook By CW Goodyear cover art

    • President Garfield

    • From Radical to Unifier
    • By: CW Goodyear
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings

    • Over nearly two decades in Congress during a polarized era—Reconstruction and the Gilded Age—Garfield served as a peacemaker in a Republican Party and America defined by divisions. He was elected to overcome them. He was killed while trying to do so....

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  • Empire: A Novel Audiobook By Gore Vidal cover art

    • Empire: A Novel

    • 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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  • 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 H. Mayer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers' strike that transformed....

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  • The Edge of Anarchy Audiobook By Jack Kelly cover art

    • The Edge of Anarchy

    • The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
    • By: Jack Kelly
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings

    • The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history....

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  • Diamonds and Deadlines Audiobook By Betsy Prioleau cover art

    • Diamonds and Deadlines

    • 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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  • Water to the Angels Audiobook By Les Standiford cover art

    • Water to the Angels

    • 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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