American Economic History

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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
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    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

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    • The Story of Washington Mutual - The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
    • Written by: Kirsten Grind
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2012-06-28
    • Language: English
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    • During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crippling bank run....

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    • An American History
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    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 2019-12-03
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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
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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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
    • Written by: William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically....

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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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • The definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters....

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    • The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
    • Written by: William A. Galston
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-26
    • Language: English
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    • The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Written by: Walter A. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2020-11-10
    • Language: English
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    • This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society....

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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
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    • 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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    • An American History
    • Written by: Lawrence B. Glickman
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-20
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    • An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics....

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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
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    • 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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    • The Story of the American Dream
    • Written by: David Leonhardt
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2023-10-24
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    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times’s “The Morning” newsletter provides a clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the death of the American Dream....

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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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    • 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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