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  • American Colossus Audiobook By H. W. Brands cover art

    • American Colossus

    • 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 280 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Tycoons Audiobook By Charles R. Morris cover art

    • The Tycoons

    • How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
    • By: Charles R. Morris
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 318 ratings

    • The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation....

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

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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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  • 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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  • Gone to Texas Audiobook By Randolph B. Campbell cover art

    • Gone to Texas

    • A History of the Lone Star State
    • By: Randolph B. Campbell
    • Narrated by: Jacob Sommer
    • Length: 28 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Gone to Texas engagingly tells the story of the Lone Star State, from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago to the opening of the 21st Century....

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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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  • Gun Barons Audiobook By John Bainbridge Jr. cover art

    • Gun Barons

    • The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them
    • By: John Bainbridge Jr.
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings

    • Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at a crucial time in United States history....

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  • The Gilded Age Audiobook By Hourly History cover art

    • The Gilded Age

    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • The period from 1870 to 1900 in the US has become known as the Gilded Age, during which America was transformed almost beyond recognition....

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  • Fraud Audiobook By Edward J. Balleisen cover art

    • Fraud

    • An American History from Barnum to Madoff
    • By: Edward J. Balleisen
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers....

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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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  • 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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  • 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 204 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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  • 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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  • The Gilded Age Audiobook By Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner cover art

    • The Gilded Age

    • By: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • The Gilded Age is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War....

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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 8 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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  • City of Big Shoulders: Second Edition Audiobook By Robert G. Spinney cover art

    • City of Big Shoulders: Second Edition

    • A History of Chicago
    • By: Robert G. Spinney
    • Narrated by: Doug McDonald
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600's to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city....

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