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Vanderbilt
- The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
- By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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New York Times best-selling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times best-selling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty - his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts....
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Gloria
- By Anonymous User on 03-01-22
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Vanderbilt
- The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 21-09-21
- Language: English
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New York Times best-selling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times best-selling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty - his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts....
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The Gilded Age
- By: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
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The Gilded Age is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War....
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Bronson Pinchot masterful.
- By Victor Matthews on 14-03-24
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The Gilded Age
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-05-11
- Language: English
- The Gilded Age is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War....
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The Curse of Beauty
- The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel
- By: James Bone
- Narrated by: Marianne Fraulo
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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The tumultuous and heartbreaking life of a world-famous model whose riveting story of beauty, fame, passion, murder, and madness in the Gilded Age captivated a nation....
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Intriguing but sad story
- By mel on 12-01-23
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The Curse of Beauty
- The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel
- Narrated by: Marianne Fraulo
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 23-08-16
- Language: English
- The tumultuous and heartbreaking life of a world-famous model whose riveting story of beauty, fame, passion, murder, and madness in the Gilded Age captivated a nation....
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Greater Gotham
- A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
- By: Mike Wallace
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 53 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale....
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Greater Gotham
- A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Series: Gotham, Book 2
- Length: 53 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 29-01-19
- Language: English
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In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale....
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American Heiresses of the Gilded Age
- By: Melissa Ziobro, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Melissa Ziobro
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
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Welcome to the era of true marriages of convenience. Discover the reality of trading someone’s hand in marriage, such as an American heiress, in exchange for money, power, or political clout through compelling history lectures....
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Terrible Narrator!
- By Timothy Heath on 28-08-21
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American Heiresses of the Gilded Age
- Narrated by: Melissa Ziobro
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 17-12-19
- Language: English
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Welcome to the era of true marriages of convenience. Discover the reality of trading someone’s hand in marriage, such as an American heiress, in exchange for money, power, or political clout through compelling history lectures....
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Astor
- The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
- By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune....
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Very Interesting
- By Christopher Small on 14-11-23
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Astor
- The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 19-09-23
- Language: English
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The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune....
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Political Order and Political Decay
- From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring....
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The superior entry of the two volumes
- By Adrian J. Smith on 09-09-20
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Political Order and Political Decay
- From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Series: Political Order, Book 2
- Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 30-09-14
- Language: English
- Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring....
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Andrew Carnegie
- By: David Nasaw
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 32 hrs and 40 mins
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The Scottish-born son of a failed weaver and a mother who supported the family by binding shoes, Andrew Carnegie was the embodiment of the American dream....
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Excellent biography
- By Mister Peridot on 01-12-17
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Andrew Carnegie
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 32 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 21-08-07
- Language: English
- The Scottish-born son of a failed weaver and a mother who supported the family by binding shoes, Andrew Carnegie was the embodiment of the American dream....
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Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
- By: Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove
- Narrated by: Robert Fass, Prentice Onayemi, Allyson Johnson, and others
- Length: 31 hrs and 15 mins
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Selected testimonies to living history-speeches, letters, poems, songs-offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn....
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Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Robert Fass, Prentice Onayemi, Allyson Johnson, Justin D. Torres, Vivienne Leheny, Jennifer Ikeda, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Raphael Corkhill, Vikas Adam
- Length: 31 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 02-10-18
- Language: English
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Selected testimonies to living history-speeches, letters, poems, songs-offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn....
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The Shanghai Secret
- The Tidewater Chronicles, Book 1
- By: Vanessa Lind
- Narrated by: Kathleen Strecker
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In the Gilded Age boomtown of Astoria, Oregon, Jo sets out to prove herself as a girl reporter. Following the trail of a missing maid, she finds her newspaper’s publisher dead. Left in charge of the paper, she discovers danger is a lot closer than she thinks....
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Secret
- By Siobhan D on 13-08-23
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The Shanghai Secret
- The Tidewater Chronicles, Book 1
- Narrated by: Kathleen Strecker
- Series: Tidewater Chronicles, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 12-07-23
- Language: English
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In the Gilded Age boomtown of Astoria, Oregon, Jo sets out to prove herself as a girl reporter. Following the trail of a missing maid, she finds her newspaper’s publisher dead. Left in charge of the paper, she discovers danger is a lot closer than she thinks....
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Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
- By: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
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A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt....
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Not dazzling
- By Anonymous User on 24-04-18
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Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 21-10-14
- Language: English
- A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt....
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Titan
- The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- By: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....
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The Unknown Man
- By James Gorman on 07-07-14
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Titan
- The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 30-12-12
- Language: English
- Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....
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These Truths
- A History of the United States
- By: Jill Lepore
- Narrated by: Jill Lepore
- Length: 29 hrs
- Unabridged
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In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them....
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A history of the United States for our time
- By Charlie on 16-01-19
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These Truths
- A History of the United States
- Narrated by: Jill Lepore
- Length: 29 hrs
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them....
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Railroaded
- The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
- By: Richard White
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age that shows history to be rooted in failure and success....
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Railroaded
- The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-06-18
- Language: English
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Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age that shows history to be rooted in failure and success....
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Billy the Kid
- The Endless Ride
- By: Michael Wallis
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid, a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time....
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Listener-friendly, easygoing account
- By Robert on 01-08-12
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Billy the Kid
- The Endless Ride
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-05-07
- Language: English
- Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid, a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time....
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City of the Century
- The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
- By: Donald L. Miller
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
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Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900....
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Such a passionate book!
- By Clairaloulah on 16-06-16
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City of the Century
- The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 04-12-14
- Language: English
- Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900....
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Late Victorian Holocausts
- El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
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ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....
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Harrowing and Enthralling
- By Anonymous User on 14-09-22
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Late Victorian Holocausts
- El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 30-04-17
- Language: English
- ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....
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The First Tycoon
- The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- By: T.J. Stiles
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 28 hrs and 45 mins
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A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon....
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Just ok.
- By A. Samtoy on 09-04-23
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The First Tycoon
- The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 28 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 21-04-09
- Language: English
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A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon....
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The American Experiment
- By: James MacGregor Burns
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 88 hrs and 27 mins
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James MacGregor Burns’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War....
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Cannot find a better U.S History
- By john on 29-01-21
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The American Experiment
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 88 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-03-14
- Language: English
- James MacGregor Burns’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War....
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What Hath God Wrought
- The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
- By: Daniel Walker Howe
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 32 hrs and 50 mins
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Historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War....
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Audio not as high quality but still good
- By Irish reader on 22-06-23
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What Hath God Wrought
- The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Series: Oxford History of the United States [Publication Order], Book 6, Oxford History of the United States, Book 5
- Length: 32 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 09-01-09
- Language: English
- Historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War....
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