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    • By: Alan S. Blinder
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States....

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    • How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
    • By: Hannah Farber
    • Narrated by: Linda Jones
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development.

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,573 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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    • The History of Whaling in America
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: James Boles
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 245 ratings
    • This absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling....

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    • A Family History
    • By: Serena Zabin
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • The story of the Boston Massacre - when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death - is familiar to generations. But many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political....

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    • The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 523 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Leviathan comes this sweeping narrative of one of America’s most historically rich industries....

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    • The Epic History of American Economic Power
    • By: John Steele Gordon
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • 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
    • By: Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 30 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 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 Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 701 ratings
    • Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early 20th century....

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    • The First American Industrial Revolution
    • By: Charles R. Morris
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • In the 30 years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history....

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    • Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,066 ratings
    • Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....

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    • Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings
    • The United States has two separate banking systems today - one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else....

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    • The Golden Arches in Black America
    • By: Marcia Chatelain
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America....

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    • How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
    • By: William L. Silber
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the 19th century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president FDR during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world during the 1970s altered the course of US and world history....

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    • Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • A best-selling historian's gripping account of the powerful men who controlled America's financial destiny. From the first days of the United States, a battle raged over money....

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    • Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
    • By: Andre M. Perry
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes listeners on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued....

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    • How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries
    • By: James Ledbetter
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Gold has influenced American monetary policy and has exerted an irrational influence on the national psyche for centuries....

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