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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
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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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Short, vague and sloppy
- By S. Collins on 07-16-21
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Leland Stanford
- The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became California's Governor and the West's Most Famous Robber Baron
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 12-19-19
- Language: English
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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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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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Smokelore
- A Short History of Barbecue in America
- By: Jim Auchmutey
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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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 history of bbq
- By Bobbyo on 04-07-24
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Smokelore
- A Short History of Barbecue in America
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 10-18-19
- Language: English
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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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New York
- The Novel
- By: Edward Rutherfurd
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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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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Don't choose the abridged version
- By JoAnn on 11-22-09
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New York
- The Novel
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 11-10-09
- Language: English
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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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XIT: A Story of Land, Cattle, and Capital in Texas and Montana
- By: Michael M. Miller
- Narrated by: Chuck Buell
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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The Texas state constitution of 1876 set aside 3,000,000 acres of public land in the Texas Panhandle in exchange for construction of the state’s monumental red-granite capitol in Austin....
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A bit off the mark?
- By JDR on 03-28-22
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XIT: A Story of Land, Cattle, and Capital in Texas and Montana
- Narrated by: Chuck Buell
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-22-21
- Language: English
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The Texas state constitution of 1876 set aside 3,000,000 acres of public land in the Texas Panhandle in exchange for construction of the state’s monumental red-granite capitol in Austin....
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If a Poem Could Live and Breathe
- A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love
- By: Mary Calvi
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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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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A powerful love story!
- By 3M on 08-25-23
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If a Poem Could Live and Breathe
- A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 02-14-23
- Language: English
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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 Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield
- A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James “Jubilee Jim” Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure....
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Dull and lifeless
- By Jon Weimer on 07-29-11
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The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield
- A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
- Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 05-31-11
- Language: English
- Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James “Jubilee Jim” Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure....
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A New History of the American South
- By: W. Fitzhugh Brundage - Edited by, Laura F. Edwards - Edited by, Jon F. Sensbach - Edited by
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 25 hrs and 40 mins
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In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a stellar group of accomplished historians in gracefully weaving a new narrative of southern history from its ancient past to the present....
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A New History of the American South
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 25 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 09-05-23
- Language: English
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In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a stellar group of accomplished historians in gracefully weaving a new narrative of southern history from its ancient past to the present....
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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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1889: The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City
- By: Michael J. Hightower
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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Hightower frames his story within the larger history of Old Oklahoma, beginning in Indian Territory, where displaced tribes and freedmen, wealthy cattlemen, and prospective homesteaders became embroiled in disputes over public land and federal government policies....
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A must read for any Oklahoma resident.
- By Dooderwear on 03-11-22
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1889: The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-30-19
- Language: English
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Hightower frames his story within the larger history of Old Oklahoma, beginning in Indian Territory, where displaced tribes and freedmen, wealthy cattlemen, and prospective homesteaders became embroiled in disputes over public land and federal government policies....
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Seduced by the Light
- The Mina Miller Edison Story
- By: Alexandra Rimer
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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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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A Compelling Story
- By pamingram on 07-10-23
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Seduced by the Light
- The Mina Miller Edison Story
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-02-23
- Language: English
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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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The Age of Reform
- By: Richard Hofstadter
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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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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Still timely after all these years
- By Jonah on 04-11-24
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The Age of Reform
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-30-18
- Language: English
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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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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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The Beneficiary
- Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
- By: Janny Scott
- Narrated by: Janny Scott
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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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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Buy A Hard Copy
- By NFox on 06-08-19
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The Beneficiary
- Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
- Narrated by: Janny Scott
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 04-16-19
- Language: English
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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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Grand Central
- How a Train Station Transformed America
- By: Sam Roberts, Pete Hamill - foreword
- Narrated by: Sam Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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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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Nice Trivia but not much insight into history
- By Ira David Socol on 09-25-21
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Grand Central
- How a Train Station Transformed America
- Narrated by: Sam Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-24-13
- Language: English
- 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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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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Madam Belle
- Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel
- By: Maryjean Wall
- Narrated by: Caroline Shively
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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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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I didn't want a book on horses and racing
- By Marilyn Segrest on 05-08-22
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Madam Belle
- Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel
- Narrated by: Caroline Shively
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-12-15
- Language: English
- 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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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Timely.
- By Robert Croft on 09-13-23
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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend
- An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
- Narrated by: Holly Adams
- Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-24-23
- Language: English
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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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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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American History
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Paul Boyer
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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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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American History
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-15-23
- Language: English
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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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