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  • Techlash Audiobook By Tom Wheeler cover art

    • Techlash

    • 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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  • Saving America's Cities Audiobook By Lizabeth Cohen cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • 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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  • Jay Gould Audiobook By Charles River Editors cover art

    • Jay Gould

    • The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became America’s Most Notorious Robber Baron
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Of all the men labeled as robber barons during the Gilded Age, nobody was as notorious during his time as Jason Gould. Gould studied every aspect he could of the booming railroad industry of the Civil War era, and then parlayed his money and connections to end up on the right side of the stock market crash in 1869.

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  • Understanding Race, Labor, and Radicalism in the United States from the Unusual Perspective of Lucy Parsons Audiobook By Dere

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  • If a Poem Could Live and Breathe Audiobook By Mary Calvi cover art

    • 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
    • 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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  • Rivers in the Desert Audiobook By Margaret Leslie Davis cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • 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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  • Steel Drivin' Man Audiobook By Scott Reynolds Nelson cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 08-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • 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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  • 100 Turning Points in American History Audiobook By Alan Axelrod cover art

    • 100 Turning Points in American History

    • By: Alan Axelrod
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • “History is just one damn thing after another.” This book argues that history is not about “things” at all but is all about turning points—the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures on which the shape of a nation’s life—our lives—depends....

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  • The Politicians and the Egalitarians Audiobook By Sean Wilentz cover art

    • The Politicians and the Egalitarians

    • The Hidden History of American Politics
    • By: Sean Wilentz
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Historian Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that together reveal a clearer, much-needed vision of American political history....

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  • Coxey's Crusade for Jobs Audiobook By Jerry Prout cover art

    • Coxey's Crusade for Jobs

    • Unemployment in the Gilded Age
    • By: Jerry Prout
    • Narrated by: Tim Toddhurst
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol....

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  • Seduced by the Light Audiobook By Alexandra Rimer cover art

    • Seduced by the Light

    • 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 2 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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  • Cuba Libre Audiobook By Philip Brenner, Peter Eisner cover art

    • Cuba Libre

    • A 500-Year Quest for Independence
    • By: Philip Brenner, Peter Eisner
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • 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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  • Reconstruction Era and Gilded Age Audiobook By Captivating History cover art

    • Reconstruction Era and Gilded Age

    • A Captivating Guide to a Period in US History That Greatly Impacted American Civil Rights and an Era of Rapid Economic Growth
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-21
    • Language: English
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    • If you want to discover the captivating history of the Reconstruction Era and Gilded Age, then pay attention....

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  • Going Big Audiobook By Robert Kuttner, Joseph E. Stiglitz - foreword cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

    • 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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  • Grand Central Audiobook By Sam Roberts, Pete Hamill - foreword cover art

    • Grand Central

    • 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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  • Barons Audiobook By J. E. Dyer cover art

    • Barons

    • By: J. E. Dyer
    • Narrated by: T. W. Ashworth
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Five families with an American dream. One railroad to span a nation. Empires will rise. Relationships will crumble. Collis Huntington, the last living member of the Associates, now wants to set the record straight....

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  • Upton Sinclair's Letters to Judd Audiobook By Upton Sinclair cover art

    • Upton Sinclair's Letters to Judd

    • By: Upton Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    • In 1925, the greatest muckraking journalist and advocate for the working man, Upton Sinclair, believed that the cause in which he believed needed to be clearly and concisely explained - in plain English - for the benefit of the American worker....

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  • Reform in the Progressive Era Audiobook By Ryan Webb cover art

    • Reform in the Progressive Era

    • By: Ryan Webb
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
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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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  • Smokelore Audiobook By Jim Auchmutey cover art

    • Smokelore

    • 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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  • Shrouded in Thought Revised 2020 Edition Audiobook By N. S. Wikarski cover art

    • Shrouded in Thought Revised 2020 Edition

    • Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 2
    • By: N. S. Wikarski
    • Narrated by: Ann Russek
    • Series: Gilded Age Chicago Mystery, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • For the two amateur sleuths, a random drowning becomes intertwined with labor riots, a national railroad strike, a medium who speaks to the dead, a blackmailer, and a murderer intent on covering his tracks by any means necessary....

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