Economic History United States

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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: 07-01-2020
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    • 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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    • The History of Whaling in America
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: James Boles
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-2007
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
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    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2020
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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 Epic History of American Economic Power
    • By: John Steele Gordon
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-2019
    • 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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    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2011
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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 Demise of the United States of America
    • By: Rodney Howard-Browne, Paul L. Williams
    • Narrated by: Ian Patterson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-2018
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    • The expanded edition includes a new epilogue in four parts, adding an extra hour to the audiobook. Pride, greed, and power have driven men to do the unthinkable....

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    • How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
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    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-2017
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    • What happens when a society is run by people who are antisocial? Welcome to baby boomer America.....

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    • Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
    • By: William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-2020
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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
    • By: Robert J. Gordon
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 30 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-2016
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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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    • By: Martin Wolf
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-2023
    • Language: English
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    • This book offers a deep and lucid assessment of why the marriage between capitalism and democracy has grown so strained and making clear why a divorce would be an almost unthinkable calamity....

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    • By: Bob Woodward
    • Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-2012
    • Language: English
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    • The Price of Politics is an intimate, documented examination of how President Obama and the highest profile leaders in the United States Congress attempted to restore the American economy....

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    • By: Eric R. Crouse
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    • This book examines the breakdown of the Keynesian Revolution. Drawing on economic literature, the memoirs of economists and politicians, and the popular press, Eric Crouse examines how economic decline in the 1970s precipitated a political revolution....

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    • FDR, Hoover, and the Dawn of a New America
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    • Veteran journalist Scott Martelle provides a gripping narrative retelling of that vitally significant year as social and political systems struggled under the weight of the devastating Dust Bowl, economic woes, rising political protests, and growing demand for the repeal of Prohibition....

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    • A History, Updated Edition
    • By: Charles R. Geisst
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    • Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
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    • Wall Street is an unending source of legend - and nightmares....

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    • A Short History
    • By: Doug West
    • Narrated by: Gregory Diehl
    • Length: 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-2015
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    • The history of United States Coinage is a story that parallels the rise of America. Starting from a humble beginning in a basement in Philadelphia in the first few years of the country....

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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: 11-06-2024
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    • 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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