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    • 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 Surprising Truth about the 'Real' America
    • By: Dante Chinni, James Gimpel
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • 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 Short History of Barbecue in America
    • By: Jim Auchmutey
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Barbecue: It's America in a mouthful. The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, the colonial era, slavery, the Civil War, the settling of the West, the coming of immigrants, the rise of the automobile, the expansion of suburbia....

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    • The Novel
    • By: Edward Rutherfurd
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • The best-selling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day. Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga....

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    • A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love
    • By: Mary Calvi
    • Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy....

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    • The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
    • By: Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • 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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    • The Mina Miller Edison Story
    • By: Alexandra Rimer
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Seduced by the Light is the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and shaped the myth of one of the most seminal figures in America’s history. The Thomas Edison we think we know was essentially created by Mina Miller Edison....

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    • 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 28 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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    • Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
    • By: Janny Scott
    • Narrated by: Janny Scott
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 220 ratings
    • A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance - financial, cultural, genetic - conspired in one person's self-destruction....

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    • How a Train Station Transformed America
    • By: Sam Roberts, Pete Hamill - foreword
    • Narrated by: Sam Roberts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • A rich, illustrated - and entertaining - history of the iconic Grand Central Terminal, from one of New York City's favorite writers, just in time to celebrate the train station's 100th anniversary....

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    • By: Taylor Caldwell
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A saga of power, greed, and illicit love set in the Gilded Age of upstate New York....

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    • Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel
    • By: Maryjean Wall
    • Narrated by: Caroline Shively
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house: an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln....

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    • An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
    • By: Priscilla Murolo, A.B. Chitty
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Praised for its "impressive even-handedness", From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review)....

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    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Paul Boyer
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating account of politics, diplomacy, and war as well as the full spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific developments that shaped our country....

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