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Flight of the WASP
- The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class
- By: Michael Gross
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
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For decades, writers have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America....
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way too long
- By Marietta Whittlesey, M.S. on 05-17-24
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Flight of the WASP
- The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 02-27-24
- Language: English
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For decades, writers have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America....
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Gone to Texas
- A History of the Lone Star State
- By: Randolph B. Campbell
- Narrated by: Jacob Sommer
- Length: 28 hrs and 21 mins
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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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Good history from year zero through about 1962
- By Jim In Texas! on 03-24-14
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Gone to Texas
- A History of the Lone Star State
- Narrated by: Jacob Sommer
- Length: 28 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-24-13
- Language: English
- 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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On Corruption in America
- And What Is at Stake
- By: Sarah Chayes
- Narrated by: Sarah Chayes
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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From the prize-winning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future....
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Profoundly ambitious and genuine yet...
- By Jerry A. Boriskin on 08-16-20
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On Corruption in America
- And What Is at Stake
- Narrated by: Sarah Chayes
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 08-11-20
- Language: English
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From the prize-winning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future....
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Baron
- The Knickerbocker Club, Book 2
- By: Joanna Shupe
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson, Ryan Stone
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Baron
- The Knickerbocker Club, Book 2
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson, Ryan Stone
- Series: Knickerbocker Club, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 06-06-23
- Language: English
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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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Iron Empires
- Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
- By: Michael Hiltzik
- Narrated by: Nicholas Tecoksy
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries....
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History doesn't get any better
- By Philo on 02-06-21
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Iron Empires
- Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
- Narrated by: Nicholas Tecoksy
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 08-11-20
- Language: English
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In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries....
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The Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt
- By: Andrew Green
- Narrated by: John York
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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For those given the privilege of being alive during the Gilded Age of America, the expansion of the American economy was truly astounding to watch....
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The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson
- By DC on 04-04-22
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The Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Narrated by: John York
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 10-23-18
- Language: English
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For those given the privilege of being alive during the Gilded Age of America, the expansion of the American economy was truly astounding to watch....
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Lone Star
- A History of Texas and the Texans
- By: T. R. Fehrenbach
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 39 hrs and 17 mins
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Here is a must-listen history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days....
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Top -10
- By JNW on 03-29-18
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Lone Star
- A History of Texas and the Texans
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 39 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 03-20-18
- Language: English
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Here is a must-listen history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days....
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Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons
- The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
- By: Charlotte Gray
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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Impeccably researched and filled with intriguing social insights, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons is a captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray....
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A very readable profile of these two women
- By Jean F. M. on 04-01-24
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Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons
- The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 09-12-23
- Language: English
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Impeccably researched and filled with intriguing social insights, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons is a captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray....
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The Last Dollar Princess
- A Young Heiress's Quest for Independence in Gilded Age America and George V's Coronation Year England
- By: Linda Bennett Pennell
- Narrated by: Ally Lane
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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It must be said. Scandal follows her family like an ever-faithful hound. No matter how hard they kick it away, it comes slinking around time-after-time....
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Disappointing
- By KB on 06-21-23
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The Last Dollar Princess
- A Young Heiress's Quest for Independence in Gilded Age America and George V's Coronation Year England
- Narrated by: Ally Lane
- Series: An American Heiress, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-16-23
- Language: English
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It must be said. Scandal follows her family like an ever-faithful hound. No matter how hard they kick it away, it comes slinking around time-after-time....
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Deception on Sable Hill
- By: Shelley Gray
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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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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I highly recommend this book
- By Rose Ruikka on 07-23-22
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Deception on Sable Hill
- 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
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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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Fraud
- An American History from Barnum to Madoff
- By: Edward J. Balleisen
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
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The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers....
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Encyclopedic; a bit dry in tone, but informative
- By Philo on 04-10-17
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Fraud
- An American History from Barnum to Madoff
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 02-01-17
- Language: English
- The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers....
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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
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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 Impostor Heiress
- Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
- 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 Last American Aristocrat
- The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
- By: David S. Brown
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 14 hrs
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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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outstanding book, highly recommend it
- By D. Littman on 02-19-21
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The Last American Aristocrat
- The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 11-24-20
- Language: English
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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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The Winthrop Agreement
- A Novel
- By: Alice Sherman Simpson
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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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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Historical Detail
- By Patricia O'Brien on 04-14-24
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The Winthrop Agreement
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-21-23
- Language: English
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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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The New Yorkers
- 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City
- By: Sam Roberts
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world’s most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it....
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There is a reason you have not heard of most of these people…
- By Anonymous User on 11-16-23
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The New Yorkers
- 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 11-09-22
- Language: English
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From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world’s most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it....
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This Side of Innocence
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-17-23
- Language: English
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A saga of power, greed, and illicit love set in the Gilded Age of upstate New York....
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The Seamstress Secret
- A spellbinding novel that spans the centuries
- By: Vanessa Lind
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Whispers of silk, echoes of secrets… In a charming 1890 riverfront town, Josephine Felch, a tenacious Gilded Age newspaper owner, solicits the ...
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The Seamstress Secret
- A spellbinding novel that spans the centuries
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-15-24
- Language: English
- Whispers of silk, echoes of secrets… In a charming 1890 riverfront town, Josephine Felch, a tenacious Gilded Age newspaper owner, solicits the ...
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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
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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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Sad & True,With Fascinating Facts of St.Louis Past
- By Ron G on 04-26-20
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The Broken Heart of America
- St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 04-14-20
- Language: English
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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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Plutocrats
- 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
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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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Good Storytelling but ... analysis is "eh'
- By Susan on 11-04-12
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Plutocrats
- The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-29-12
- Language: English
- 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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Last Train to Paradise
- Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
- By: Les Standiford
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad - one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit US shores....
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Love real history of fascinating people
- By Debbie on 02-11-23
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Last Train to Paradise
- Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 08-02-19
- Language: English
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The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad - one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit US shores....
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