Gilded Age
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Four Threats
- The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
- By: Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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While many Americans despair of the current state of US politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that to the contrary, the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy....
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Very informative
- By Angela Fobbs on 12-31-20
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Four Threats
- The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 08-11-20
- Language: English
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While many Americans despair of the current state of US politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that to the contrary, the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy....
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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
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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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Wonderful book
- By John Cashman on 06-12-20
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Citizen Reporters
- S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-18-20
- Language: English
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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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Our Patchwork Nation
- The Surprising Truth about the 'Real' America
- By: Dante Chinni, James Gimpel
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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In a climate of culture wars and tremendous economic uncertainty, America is often reduced to a simplistic schism between red states and blue states. But that is an oversimplification....
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A little bit interesting, but largly pointless
- By Blake on 03-02-14
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Our Patchwork Nation
- The Surprising Truth about the 'Real' America
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-30-10
- Language: English
- In a climate of culture wars and tremendous economic uncertainty, America is often reduced to a simplistic schism between red states and blue states. But that is an oversimplification....
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Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- By: Daniel Okrent
- Narrated by: Daniel Okrent
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent's rank as a major American writer....
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Strictly an account
- By Linda on 06-05-10
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Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- Narrated by: Daniel Okrent
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-21-10
- Language: English
- Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent's rank as a major American writer....
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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 Market Revolution
- Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
- By: Charles Sellers
- Narrated by: Joseph M. Clarke
- Length: 26 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians, Charles Sellers, offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and written with grace and style, this volume provides a sweeping political....
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Stupendous book, awful narration
- By Artree on 11-05-22
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The Market Revolution
- Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
- Narrated by: Joseph M. Clarke
- Length: 26 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 01-10-19
- Language: English
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In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians, Charles Sellers, offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and written with grace and style, this volume provides a sweeping political....
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These United States
- A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
- By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Thomas J. Sugrue
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 28 hrs and 48 mins
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A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail....
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These United States
- A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 28 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-19-15
- Language: English
- A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail....
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Reform in the Progressive Era
- By: Ryan Webb
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 mins
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In the final decades of the 19th century, America experienced rapid industrial growth, corporate mergers, an influx of immigrants and a rise in ...
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Reform in the Progressive Era
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 04-30-24
- Language: English
- In the final decades of the 19th century, America experienced rapid industrial growth, corporate mergers, an influx of immigrants and a rise in ...
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The Jungle (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Upton Sinclair
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
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Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus has invested every last hope in achieving a prosperous new start in a new country....
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almost the socialist answer to Atlas shrugged
- By Brad on 08-01-19
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The Jungle (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 05-10-18
- Language: English
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Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus has invested every last hope in achieving a prosperous new start in a new country....
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All the Great Prizes
- The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
- By: John Taliaferro
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
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John Taliaferro’s brilliant biography captures the extraordinary life of Hay, one of the most amazing figures in American history, and restores him to his rightful place....
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Almost a Five Star
- By Lulu on 12-22-14
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All the Great Prizes
- The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 07-12-13
- Language: English
- John Taliaferro’s brilliant biography captures the extraordinary life of Hay, one of the most amazing figures in American history, and restores him to his rightful place....
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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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Taboo
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kate Nulgrew
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 06-19-09
- Language: English
- Plunge into the glamour and fame, dark secrets and sordid lives of 3 high rollers living in Hollywood's gilded age....
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Understanding Race, Labor, and Radicalism in the United States from the Unusual Perspective of Lucy Parsons
- By: Derek Dwight Anderson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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This volume in a series of world history case studies analyzes the life of the uncompromising Black labor leader and anarchist Lucy Parsons. ...
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Understanding Race, Labor, and Radicalism in the United States from the Unusual Perspective of Lucy Parsons
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
- This volume in a series of world history case studies analyzes the life of the uncompromising Black labor leader and anarchist Lucy Parsons. ...
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Rebel Cinderella
- From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
- By: Adam Hochschild
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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From the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time....
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terrific
- By Julie A. Joyce on 05-11-20
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Rebel Cinderella
- From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
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From the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time....
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Mud, Blood, and Ghosts
- Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
- By: Julie Carr
- Narrated by: Julie Carr
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family’s history through archival documents to draw connections between US agrarian populism, spiritualism, and eugenics....
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Mud, Blood, and Ghosts
- Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
- Narrated by: Julie Carr
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-22-23
- Language: English
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Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family’s history through archival documents to draw connections between US agrarian populism, spiritualism, and eugenics....
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Saving America's Cities
- Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
- By: Lizabeth Cohen
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
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In Saving America's Cities, Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests....
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Timely
- By Alex Fuller on 10-13-23
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Saving America's Cities
- Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-23-20
- Language: English
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In Saving America's Cities, Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests....
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Techlash
- Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?
- By: Tom Wheeler
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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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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Techlash
- Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 11-01-23
- Language: English
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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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Restless Giant
- The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore
- By: James T. Patterson
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
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Restless Giant provides a crisp, concise assessment of the 27 years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush, in a sweeping narrative that seamlessly weaves together social, cultural, political, economic, and international developments....
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Too Soon? Maybe, but still a good listen
- By J. Lee on 08-15-13
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Restless Giant
- The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Series: Oxford History of the United States [Publication Order], Book 5, Oxford History of the United States, Book 11
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-03-11
- Language: English
- Restless Giant provides a crisp, concise assessment of the 27 years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush, in a sweeping narrative that seamlessly weaves together social, cultural, political, economic, and international developments....
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From Generosity to Justice
- A New Gospel of Wealth
- By: Darren Walker
- Narrated by: Darren Walker, Andre Blake, Heather Alicia Sims
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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In From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth, Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, articulates a bold vision for philanthropy in the twenty-first century....
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Justice must (include) US.
- By Anonymous User on 04-25-23
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From Generosity to Justice
- A New Gospel of Wealth
- Narrated by: Darren Walker, Andre Blake, Heather Alicia Sims
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 03-28-23
- Language: English
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In From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth, Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, articulates a bold vision for philanthropy in the twenty-first century....
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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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