Gilded Age
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Fraud
- An American History from Barnum to Madoff
- By: Edward J. Balleisen
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
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The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers....
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Encyclopedic; a bit dry in tone, but informative
- By Philo on 04-10-17
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Fraud
- An American History from Barnum to Madoff
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 02-01-17
- Language: English
- The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers....
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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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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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Shift Happens
- The History of Labor in the United States
- By: J. Albert Mann
- Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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The History of Labor in the United States is an accessible and comprehensive YA history of the way the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens.
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Shift Happens
- The History of Labor in the United States
- Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-04-24
- Language: English
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The History of Labor in the United States is an accessible and comprehensive YA history of the way the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens.
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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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Rivers in the Desert
- William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
- By: Margaret Leslie Davis
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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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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Many inaccuracies-do some independent reseach
- By Nancy Pf on 05-19-24
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Rivers in the Desert
- William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
- 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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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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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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Going Big
- FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy
- By: Robert Kuttner, Joseph E. Stiglitz - foreword
- Narrated by: Robert Kuttner
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril....
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So simple and so clear
- By Tim on 07-15-22
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Going Big
- FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy
- Narrated by: Robert Kuttner
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-26-22
- Language: English
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Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril....
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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
- Unabridged
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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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The Winthrop Agreement
- A Novel
- By: Alice Sherman Simpson
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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A captivating historical novel set in Gilded Age New York City, The Winthrop Agreement is about an immigrant daughter’s ascent from a miserable tenement to the heights of haute couture, driven by an insatiable hunger for a place in society and secrets she must not betray....
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Historical Detail
- By Patricia O'Brien on 04-14-24
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The Winthrop Agreement
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-21-23
- Language: English
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A captivating historical novel set in Gilded Age New York City, The Winthrop Agreement is about an immigrant daughter’s ascent from a miserable tenement to the heights of haute couture, driven by an insatiable hunger for a place in society and secrets she must not betray....
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Meet You in Hell
- Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
- By: Les Standiford
- Narrated by: John Dossett
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry....
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A story filled with errors
- By Kismet on 11-18-06
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Meet You in Hell
- Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
- Narrated by: John Dossett
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 05-27-05
- Language: English
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The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry....
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Cuba Libre
- A 500-Year Quest for Independence
- By: Philip Brenner, Peter Eisner
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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This timely book provides a balanced, deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since 1492. Tracing the island's history over 500 years....
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Lost Opportunity (and time)
- By Alexander Piquer on 05-04-18
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Cuba Libre
- A 500-Year Quest for Independence
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-17-17
- Language: English
- This timely book provides a balanced, deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since 1492. Tracing the island's history over 500 years....
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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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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 Progressive Era
- By: Murray N. Rothbard
- Narrated by: Graham Wright
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
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Rothbard's posthumous masterpiece is the definitive book on the Progressives. It will soon be the must read study of this dreadful time in our past (from the foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano)....
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Details... Oh my God, the details
- By Russell Herbst on 05-25-18
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The Progressive Era
- Narrated by: Graham Wright
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 02-21-18
- Language: English
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Rothbard's posthumous masterpiece is the definitive book on the Progressives. It will soon be the must read study of this dreadful time in our past (from the foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano)....
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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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If This Is Love
- The Darlingtons, Book 1
- By: Naomi Finley
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The year 1870. The onset of the Gilded Age. Times are changing, and so are the ideals centered around women, but Kat Darlington’s troubles go much deeper than the world’s inequality, and they occur closer to home....
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If This Is Love
- The Darlingtons, Book 1
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Series: Darlingtons, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-06-23
- Language: English
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The year 1870. The onset of the Gilded Age. Times are changing, and so are the ideals centered around women, but Kat Darlington’s troubles go much deeper than the world’s inequality, and they occur closer to home....
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The Seamstress Secret
- A spellbinding novel that spans the centuries
- By: Vanessa Lind
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Whispers of silk, echoes of secrets… In a charming 1890 riverfront town, Josephine Felch, a tenacious Gilded Age newspaper owner, solicits the ...
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The Seamstress Secret
- A spellbinding novel that spans the centuries
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-15-24
- Language: English
- Whispers of silk, echoes of secrets… In a charming 1890 riverfront town, Josephine Felch, a tenacious Gilded Age newspaper owner, solicits the ...
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Steel Drivin' Man
- John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
- By: Scott Reynolds Nelson
- Narrated by: Panama Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the true story of the man behind the iconic American hero, telling the poignant tale of a young Virginia convict who died working on one of the most dangerous enterprises of the time: the first rail route through the Appalachian Mountains....
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Steele Driving Man History
- By Anonymous User on 10-14-23
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Steel Drivin' Man
- John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
- Narrated by: Panama Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-23-23
- Language: English
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In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the true story of the man behind the iconic American hero, telling the poignant tale of a young Virginia convict who died working on one of the most dangerous enterprises of the time: the first rail route through the Appalachian Mountains....
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