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The Struggle for America's Promise
- Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital
- By: Claire Goldstene
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Goldstene uses a biographical approach to focus on key figures along a spectrum of political belief as they struggled to reconcile the inherent contradictions of equal opportunity....
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The Struggle for America's Promise
- Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 11-20-14
- Language: English
- Goldstene uses a biographical approach to focus on key figures along a spectrum of political belief as they struggled to reconcile the inherent contradictions of equal opportunity....
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Barons
- By: J. E. Dyer
- Narrated by: T. W. Ashworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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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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harsh realities
- By B.McGrath on 01-02-21
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Barons
- Narrated by: T. W. Ashworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-29-20
- Language: English
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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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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
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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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Jay Gould
- The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became America’s Most Notorious Robber Baron
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-12-18
- Language: English
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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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Upton Sinclair
- A Study in Social Protest
- By: Floyd Dell
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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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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Well done! interesting perspective.
- By OpenTheBooks&Listen on 01-27-23
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Upton Sinclair
- A Study in Social Protest
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-20-23
- Language: English
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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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Understanding Race, Labor, and Radicalism in the United States from the Unusual Perspective of Lucy Parsons
- By: Derek Dwight Anderson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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This volume in a series of world history case studies analyzes the life of the uncompromising Black labor leader and anarchist Lucy Parsons. ...
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Understanding Race, Labor, and Radicalism in the United States from the Unusual Perspective of Lucy Parsons
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
- This volume in a series of world history case studies analyzes the life of the uncompromising Black labor leader and anarchist Lucy Parsons. ...
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Lincolnomics
- How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
- By: John F. Wasik
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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Lincolnomics revives the disremembered history of how Lincoln paved the way for Eisenhower's interstate highways and FDR's social amenities....
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Lincolnomics
- How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-13-21
- Language: English
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Lincolnomics revives the disremembered history of how Lincoln paved the way for Eisenhower's interstate highways and FDR's social amenities....
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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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Reform in the Progressive Era
- By: Ryan Webb
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 mins
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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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Reform in the Progressive Era
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 04-30-24
- Language: English
- 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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Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- By: Daniel Okrent
- Narrated by: Daniel Okrent
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent's rank as a major American writer....
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Strictly an account
- By Linda on 06-05-10
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Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- Narrated by: Daniel Okrent
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-21-10
- Language: English
- Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent's rank as a major American writer....
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The Fall of White City
- Revised 2020 Edition (Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 1)
- By: N.S. Wikarski
- Narrated by: Lucinda Gainey
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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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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Chicago 1893: Hull House " White City" Murder
- By E.Snurd on 08-14-22
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The Fall of White City
- Revised 2020 Edition (Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 1)
- Narrated by: Lucinda Gainey
- Series: Gilded Age Chicago Mystery, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 02-01-21
- Language: English
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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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Taboo
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kate Nulgrew
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 06-19-09
- Language: English
- 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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100 Turning Points in American History
- By: Alan Axelrod
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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“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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Why go partisan?
- By James Schoening on 02-04-23
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100 Turning Points in American History
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-30-22
- Language: English
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“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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Gilded Time
- By: O'Neil De Noux
- Narrated by: Gabriel Jose Perez
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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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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Gilded Time
- 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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Business Tycoon Biographies
- Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, & Henry Clay Frick: The Story of America’s Oil and Steel Founding Fathers
- By: Richard Milton
- Narrated by: John Harrison Gass
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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You are one click away from discovering the biographies of America’s oil and steel founding fathers, Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, and Henry Clay Frick, that led to the Gilded Age....
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Business Tycoon Biographies
- Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, & Henry Clay Frick: The Story of America’s Oil and Steel Founding Fathers
- Narrated by: John Harrison Gass
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 02-24-21
- Language: English
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You are one click away from discovering the biographies of America’s oil and steel founding fathers, Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, and Henry Clay Frick, that led to the Gilded Age....
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The Rose Man of Sing Sing
- 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
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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 Rose Man of Sing Sing
- A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 12-29-09
- Language: English
- 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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Upton Sinclair's Letters to Judd
- By: Upton Sinclair
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
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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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Upton Sinclair's Letters to Judd
- 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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Coxey's Crusade for Jobs
- Unemployment in the Gilded Age
- By: Jerry Prout
- Narrated by: Tim Toddhurst
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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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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Coxey's Crusade for Jobs
- Unemployment in the Gilded Age
- Narrated by: Tim Toddhurst
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-19-19
- Language: English
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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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The Age of Innocence
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Zöe Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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The Age of Innocence was first published in 1920 by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the 1870s, in upper-class "Gilded Age" New York City....
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Conventions
- By Suzy Gebhardt Clarke on 04-01-21
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The Age of Innocence
- Narrated by: Zöe Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 02-25-20
- Language: English
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The Age of Innocence was first published in 1920 by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the 1870s, in upper-class "Gilded Age" New York City....
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Queen of the Con
- From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter (True Crime History)
- By: Thomas Crowl
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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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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Boring.
- By Kristen McGill on 12-20-23
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Queen of the Con
- From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter (True Crime History)
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 07-27-22
- Language: English
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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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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
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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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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
- 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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