Building America

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    • The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
    • By: Jean H. Baker
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • An English emigre who became America's first professional architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe put his stamp on the built landscape of the new republic. Latrobe contributed to such iconic structures as the south wing of the US Capitol building, the White House, and the Navy Yard....

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    • A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
    • By: Neal Bascomb
    • Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This riveting, true account of the 1929 race to build New York City's tallest skyscraper evokes the glory of an exciting time long past....

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    • The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park
    • By: Todd James Pierce
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-19
    • Language: English
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    • While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park: fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Here is the never-before-told, full story of "the happiest place on earth"....

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    • The Mythology of Wealth in America
    • By: Nelson Aldrich
    • Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-13
    • Language: English
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    • This insider's look at inherited wealth in the United States explores the complex meanings of money and success in American society....

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    • The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 27 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-12
    • Language: English
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    • This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world.....

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    • The Life and Buildings of America's Most Famous Architect
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Ray
    • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-17
    • Language: English
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    • Perhaps America's most innovative and prolific architect, the works of Frank Lloyd Wright are almost too vast and diverse to list....

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    • By: P. T . Barnum
    • Narrated by: Gregg Rizzo
    • Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-19
    • Language: English
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    • First published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum, The Art of Money-Getting is a short book encouraging the general public to aspire to wealth through proper economic means: building a savings, collecting on interest, operating business with integrity....

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    • Up from Slavery, Character Building, The Atlanta Compromise, The Awakening of the Negro, The Case of the Negro, The Future of the American Negro, & Industrial Education for the Negro
    • By: Booker T. Washington
    • Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
    • Series: The Complete Booker T. Washington Collection, Book The Complete Booker T. Washington Collection
    • Length: 19 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-20
    • Language: English
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    • Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was an educator, author, intellectual and orator, who founded Tuskegee University in 1881. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the most prominent leader in the African American community....

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    • Quotes, Questions, and Affirmations for Teens
    • By: M.J. Fievre
    • Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 31-05-22
    • Language: English
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    • Explore the many facets of your identity through hundreds of big and small questions. In this affirmations audiobook created for Black girls, M. J. Fievre tackles topics such as family and friends, school and careers, body image, and stereotypes....

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    • The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
    • By: Daina Ramey Berry
    • Narrated by: Pippa Vos
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives....

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    • The Building of America, 1735-1817
    • By: Myron Magnet
    • Narrated by: Myron Magnet
    • Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-14
    • Language: English
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    • Why the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success....

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    • Thrilling Descriptions of Buffalo Hunting, Indian Fighting and Massacres, Cowboy Life and Home Building
    • By: Charles Goodnight
    • Narrated by: Tim Brown
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 19-08-20
    • Language: English
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    • Pioneer Days in the Southwest from 1850 to 1879 is an anthology of memoirs by pioneers of the region. The book contains accounts by Emanuel Dubbs, John A. Hart and Charles Goodnight, the famous cattle rancher who was also known as the "father of the Texas Panhandle”....

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    • The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-04
    • Language: English
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    • First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time: the building of the Brooklyn Bridge....

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    • By: Booker T. Washington
    • Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-20
    • Language: English
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    • Character Building (1902) is a collection of talks on self-development given to students and faculty at the Tuskegee Institute, of which he was leader. The author stresses the importance of developing oneself for life-long success....

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    • Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire
    • By: Gerard Koeppel
    • Narrated by: Dennis Stone
    • Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 22-01-10
    • Language: English
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    • Conceived in the early 1800s and completed in 1825, the Erie Canal was the boldest and biggest American engineering project of its century, with enduring political, social, and economic effects....

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    • Behind the Scenes Building the Commercial Aircraft Industry with the Wright Brothers, Bill Boeing, and Donald Douglas: A Fictional History
    • By: Russell Lee Dore'
    • Narrated by: K B Forbes
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • Not another aircraft history, but a historical novel that lets you listen in on conversations among the key American aircraft pioneers as they built the US commercial aircraft industry and got us all in the air....

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