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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 20 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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  • 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 Last American Aristocrat Audiobook By David S. Brown cover art

    • The Last American Aristocrat

    • The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
    • By: David S. Brown
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings

    • 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 New Yorkers Audiobook By Sam Roberts cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 11-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • 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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  • Clarence Darrow Audiobook By John A. Farrell cover art

    • Clarence Darrow

    • Attorney for the Damned
    • By: John A. Farrell
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 20 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind.....

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  • Lone Star Audiobook By T. R. Fehrenbach cover art

    • Lone Star

    • A History of Texas and the Texans
    • By: T. R. Fehrenbach
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 39 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 ratings

    • 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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  • The Broken Heart of America Audiobook By Walter Johnson cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings

    • 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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  • Iron Empires Audiobook By Michael Hiltzik cover art

    • Iron Empires

    • Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Tecoksy
    • Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

    • 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 Audiobook By Andrew Green cover art

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  • Plutocrats Audiobook By Chrystia Freeland cover art

    • 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
    • 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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  • Nothing Like It in the World Audiobook By Stephen E. Ambrose cover art

    • Nothing Like It in the World

    • The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863 - 1869
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers an historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage....

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  • The Age of Reform Audiobook By Richard Hofstadter cover art

    • The Age of Reform

    • By: Richard Hofstadter
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

    • This work is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results....

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  • Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons Audiobook By Charlotte Gray cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • 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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  • Leland Stanford Audiobook By Charles River Editors cover art

    • Leland Stanford

    • The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became California's Governor and the West's Most Famous Robber Baron
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Daniel Houle
    • Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Leland Stanford: The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became California’s Governor and the West’s Most Famous Robber Baron chronicles the remarkable life of Stanford....

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  • The Last Dollar Princess Audiobook By Linda Bennett Pennell cover art

    • 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
    • Series: An American Heiress, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • 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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  • Citizen Reporters Audiobook By Stephanie Gorton cover art

    • Citizen Reporters

    • S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America
    • By: Stephanie Gorton
    • Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

    • A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm - as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America....

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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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  • From Generosity to Justice Audiobook By Darren Walker cover art

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  • The Jungle (AmazonClassics Edition) Audiobook By Upton Sinclair cover art

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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 98 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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