The Gilded Age | Henry Carter Hull

41) An illuminated life: Belle da Costa Greene's journey from prejudice to privilege

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Ardizzone, Heidi

42) Ragtime

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Doctorow, E. L

43) forgotten room

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44) Writings

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Du Bois, W. E. B

45) Titan: the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr

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Chernow, Ron

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A biography of America's first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., drawing from Rockefeller's personal papers to provide information about his rustic origins, his creation of Standard Oil, his often controversial business tactics, and his personal relationships and attributes.

46) Andrew Carnegie

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Nasaw, David

47) Carnegie's maid: a novel

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Benedict, Marie

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Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie...

48) Life at the Dakota: New York's most unusual address

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Birmingham, Stephen

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A history of the Manhattan building and its famous tenants, from Lauren Bacall to John Lennon, by the New York Times–bestselling author of “Our Crowd”.

When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the late 1800s, it was derisively dubbed “the Dakota” for being as far from the center of the downtown action

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49) Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires

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Wills, Shomari

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"By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history." -- Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden Figures Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of industrious, tenacious, and daring men and women broke...

50) The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays

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Du Bois, W. E. B

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"Early essays from the sociologist, displaying the beginnings of his views on politics, society, and Black Americans' status in the United States. This volume assembles essential essays?some published only posthumously, others obscure, another only recently translated?by W. E. B. Du Bois from 1894 to early 1906. They show the first formulations of some of his most famous ideas, namely, "the veil," "double-consciousness," and the "problem of the color...

51) Winslow Homer

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Cikovsky, Nicolai

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Explains how Homer's reclusive lifestyle and independence from schools and masters led him to create modern American art.

52) Downton Abbey

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Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them.

53) Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey: the lost legacy of Highclere Castle

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Carnarvon, Fiona

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Tells the story behind Highclere Castle and the life of its most famous inhabitant, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon, drawing on the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs.