American Economic History

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    • The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
    • Written by: Robert J. Gordon
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 30 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2016-07-26
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. This book provides an in-depth account of this era....

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    • The Epic History of American Economic Power
    • Written by: John Steele Gordon
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2019-07-30
    • Language: English
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    • Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States....

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    • An American History
    • Written by: Tom Nicholas
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 2019-12-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A major exploration of venture financing, from its origins in the whaling industry to Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation....

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    • How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
    • Written by: Casey Michel
    • Narrated by: Joe Dwyer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2021-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, American Kleptocracy offers the first explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known....

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    • The Impossible Country
    • Written by: Daniel Tudor
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

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    • How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
    • Written by: Christopher Leonard
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2022-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press....

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    • The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
    • Written by: Bethany McLean
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 22 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2010-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • The definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters....

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    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • Written by: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2011-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • Written by: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • Written by: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: Robert Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2012-03-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

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    • The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
    • Written by: T.J. Stiles
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 28 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2009-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • 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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    • A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
    • Written by: Bhu Srinivasan
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick, Bhu Srinivasan
    • Length: 21 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2017-09-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Americana takes us on a 400-year journey of the spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things....

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    • The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
    • Written by: William D. Cohan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 28 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2022-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The dramatic rise—and unimaginable fall—of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan....

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    • Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
    • Written by: Arlie Russell Hochschild
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and best-selling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance.

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    • A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
    • Written by: Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 30 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2015-12-27
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light....

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    • The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
    • Written by: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-05
    • Language: English
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    • In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life....

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    • A History of the United States
    • Written by: Jonathan Levy
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present - and argues that we’ve reached yet another turning point that will define the era ahead....

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    • The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
    • Written by: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-08
    • Language: English
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    • Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet....

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    • My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
    • Written by: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2017-10-03
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth....

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