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  • Vanderbilt Audiobook By Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe cover art

    • Vanderbilt

    • The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
    • By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
    • Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,782 ratings

    • 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 Last Castle Audiobook By Denise Kiernan cover art

    • The Last Castle

    • The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home
    • By: Denise Kiernan
    • Narrated by: Denise Kiernan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 988 ratings
    • The fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore - the largest, grandest residence ever built in the United States....

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  • Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt Audiobook By Eleanor Roosevelt cover art

    • Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

    • By: Eleanor Roosevelt
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 499 ratings
    • 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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  • Greater Gotham Audiobook By Mike Wallace cover art

    • Greater Gotham

    • A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
    • By: Mike Wallace
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Series: Gotham, Book 2
    • Length: 53 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings

    • 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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  • America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Audiobook By Edward T. O'Donnell, The Great Courses cover art

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  • Astor Audiobook By Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe cover art

    • Astor

    • The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
    • By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
    • Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,106 ratings

    • 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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  • The Republic for Which It Stands Audiobook By Richard White cover art

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  • American Colossus Audiobook By H. W. Brands cover art

    • American Colossus

    • The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 281 ratings

    • In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power....

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  • Railroaded Audiobook By Richard White cover art

    • Railroaded

    • The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Richard White
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 144 ratings

    • 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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  • The Richest Woman in America Audiobook By Janet Wallach cover art

    • The Richest Woman in America

    • Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
    • By: Janet Wallach
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • A captivating biography of America's first female tycoon, Hetty Green, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time....

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  • American Heiresses of the Gilded Age Audiobook By Melissa Ziobro, The Great Courses cover art

    • American Heiresses of the Gilded Age

    • By: Melissa Ziobro, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Melissa Ziobro
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 308 ratings

    • 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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  • A Patriot’s History of the United States, Updated Edition Audiobook By Larry Schweikart, Michael Allen cover art

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  • The Gilded Age Audiobook By Captivating History cover art

    • The Gilded Age

    • A Captivating Guide to an Era in American History That Overlaps the Reconstruction Era and Coincides with Parts of the Victorian Era in Britain Along with the Belle Époque in France
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings

    • From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United States was a major powerhouse since its early days. However, the truth is far from it. This transformation from a weak and relatively poor dominion into a world-class international power was undoubtedly a long process....

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  • Gotham Audiobook By Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace cover art

    • Gotham

    • A History of New York City to 1898
    • By: Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Series: Gotham, Book 1
    • Length: 67 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 270 ratings

    • In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898....

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  • Theodore Rex Audiobook By Edmund Morris cover art

    • Theodore Rex

    • By: Edmund Morris
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
    • Series: Theodore Roosevelt, Book 2
    • Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,791 ratings

    • Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States....

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  • These Truths Audiobook By Jill Lepore cover art

    • These Truths

    • A History of the United States
    • By: Jill Lepore
    • Narrated by: Jill Lepore
    • Length: 29 hrs
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,337 ratings

    • 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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  • Empty Mansions Audiobook By Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Jr. cover art

    • Empty Mansions

    • The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
    • By: Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Jr.
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,447 ratings
    • When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly 60 years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history....

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  • President Garfield Audiobook By CW Goodyear cover art

    • President Garfield

    • From Radical to Unifier
    • By: CW Goodyear
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings

    • Over nearly two decades in Congress during a polarized era—Reconstruction and the Gilded Age—Garfield served as a peacemaker in a Republican Party and America defined by divisions. He was elected to overcome them. He was killed while trying to do so....

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  • Deception on Sable Hill Audiobook By Shelley Gray cover art

    • Deception on Sable Hill

    • By: Shelley Gray
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Series: Chicago World's Fair Mystery, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

    • It’s mid-September 1893 and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning debutant of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with a dark secret. Several months ago, she endured a horrible assault at the hands of Douglass Sloane....

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  • American Character Audiobook By Colin Woodard cover art

    • American Character

    • A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in our history....

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