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    • 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 33 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 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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    • 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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    • The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class
    • By: Michael Gross
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 290 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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    • And What Is at Stake
    • By: Sarah Chayes
    • Narrated by: Sarah Chayes
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
    • By: William S. Cossen
    • Narrated by: Kyle Whisenant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • Making Catholic America offers a new interpretation of American life in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, demonstrating the surprising success of an often-embattled religious group in securing itself a place in the national community.

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    • The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel
    • By: James Bone
    • Narrated by: Marianne Fraulo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • The tumultuous and heartbreaking life of a world-famous model whose riveting story of beauty, fame, passion, murder, and madness in the Gilded Age captivated a nation....

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    • William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
    • By: Margaret Leslie Davis
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
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    • Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi....

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    • Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?
    • By: Tom Wheeler
    • Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Tom Wheeler provides an accessible and visionary book that connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age....

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    • 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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