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    • History on the Half Shell
    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster....

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    • A Concise History of America
    • By: Louis P. Masur
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet compact history of America from its beginnings to the current moment....

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    • By: Upton Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • By: O'Neil De Noux
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Jose Perez
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
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    • Mark Twain called it The Gilded Age, those years after the Civil War to the end of the 19th Century. It was a time of great prosperity and great poverty, a time of great opportunities and social unrest. Not a golden time but an era covered in a golden shell – gilded.

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    • A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism
    • By: James McGrath Morris
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Charles E. Chapin, the notorious editor-tyrant of the New York Evening World, made headlines himself after murdering his wife of 39 years....

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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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    • From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter (True Crime History)
    • By: Thomas Crowl
    • Narrated by: Chaz Allen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and “one of the top 10 imposters of all time”, according to TIME magazine....

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    • Revised 2020 Edition (Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 1)
    • By: N.S. Wikarski
    • Narrated by: Lucinda Gainey
    • Series: Gilded Age Chicago Mystery, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Chicago in the 1890s is the fastest growing metropolis in America. An eccentric heiress and a cub reporter find themselves repeatedly drawn into the hidden world of intrigue and murder that lurks within the shadows of the White City....

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    • A Study in Social Protest
    • By: Floyd Dell
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This insightful and unsparing biography of Sinclair was written by Dell when Sinclair was 48 years old and in mid career. The spectacular success of The Jungle was behind him, and he had already become a world famous celebrity writer....

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    • 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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    • Cliff Walk Courtships, Book 1
    • By: Cecily K. Wolfe
    • Narrated by: Dana DiAngelo
    • Series: Cliff Walk Courtships, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Josie is content as a maid in a rich cottager's mansion along the Cliff Walk of beautiful Newport, Rhode Island, but the arrival of her employer's handsome, pensive son tempts her into a relationship that while chaste, is forbidden between their social classes in the Gilded Age of 1893....

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    • Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
    • By: Julie Carr
    • 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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    • An Enthralling Overview of Major Events that Shaped the United States of America
    • By: Billy Wellman
    • Narrated by: Jay Herbert
    • Series: U.S. History, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • For those who are interested in learning about America, this is a great introductory audiobook. It should whet your appetite to learn more....

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    • American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
    • By: Leon Fink
    • Narrated by: Ralph Morocco
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • From the end of the 19th century through the first decades of the 20th, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Elizabeth Gage
    • Narrated by: Kate Nulgrew
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 06-19-09
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • The Life and Times of a Philadelphia Entrepreneur
    • By: Bill Double
    • Narrated by: Scott Carrico
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Introduced at the 1876 Centennial Exposition and powered by an historic advertising campaign, Hires Root Beer - launched 10 years before Coca-Cola - blazed the trail for development of the American soft drink industry. Its inventor, Charles Elmer Hires....

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    • Oscar Wilde in North America
    • By: Roy Morris Jr.
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A chronicle of his sensational eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age....

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