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The “Kings Have Won” is a captivating exploration of America’s path to oligarchy, weaving together the intimate stories of everyday lives with the sweeping forces that shaped the fabric of our Nation.

 This historical fiction by Adrien Gold provides a captivating read and offers an enlightening insight into significant events and figures of the past 200 years. 

History, power, and control, revealed like never before.

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About The Kings Have Won

A Sweeping Historical Epic of Power, Greed, and the Human Spirit

 The Kings Have Won is a captivating exploration of America’s march toward oligarchy. The book is a masterfully woven collection of 19 riveting stories that span two centuries. Each story is meticulously researched and brilliantly crafted, revealing
little-known facts about American history and the socio-political events
that shaped our world. 

The Kings Have Won is a novel of Grand Scale and intimate detail in which Adrien Gold crafts an intricate historical drama that immerses readers in the personal struggles, loves, ambitions, and tragedies of everyday citizens, all set against the backdrop of the major political and economic forces that shaped Western society.

At the heart of this novel lies a chilling and eye-opening reality: the world we live in has been carefully shaped by the invisible hands of elite bankers and power brokers, their machinations manipulating economies, controlling governments, and ensuring that wealth remains concentrated in the hands of the few. With a brilliant blend of fiction and historical fact, Gold unpacks the secrets of financial empires, backroom political deals, and the complicit actions of those who serve the ruling class, all while telling deeply human stories of those caught in the crossfire. Despite their fictional fabric, these tales remain rooted in historical events, rendering the narrative both compelling and educational.

These 19 stories introduce us to General Smedley Darlington Butler and an audacious Bank Plot to overthrow FDR, the burning of Washington during the War of 1812, while other tales explore complex characters like Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Lincoln, JFK and many others. Paul Warburg, and events leading to the significant 1929 Crash. 

Readers have described The Kings Have Won as “thrilling, inspiring, and chilling all in one”, a work that is as entertaining as it is thought-provoking. With its rich historical details and deeply human storytelling, the novel forces us to confront a pressing question: Has America ever truly been in control of its own destiny, or have the kings already won?

For fans of historical dramas like Ken Follett’s The Century Trilogy or political thrillers like Robert Harris’s The Fear Index, The Kings Have Won offers an unparalleled reading experience that is both informative and gripping. It is a book that enlightens as much as it entertains, shining a stark light on the hidden forces that have shaped history.

For readers who crave both history and intrigue, this engrossing collection of short stories, authored by Adrien Gold, serves as an illuminating window into American history and the clandestine machinations of global power.

This masterful work of historical fiction will forever alter your conception of American history.

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The story behind the King Have Won

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How it all began

Becoming an American citizen led Adrien Gold to study the America’s history. Fascinated by the many momentous but little-known events that he discovered along the way, Gold embarked on writing a series of 19 entertaining and informative short stories of historical fiction, compiled into “The Kings Have Won.” The book recounts America’s 200-year-long battle for the wealth of America.

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7. I Killed the Bank

Discover the epic showdown between President Andrew Jackson and banker Nicholas Biddle in this gripping exploration of the Bank War, one of the most pivotal, dramatic, and often misunderstood battles in American history.
Who truly won? And what legacy did this titanic clash leave behind—for our economy, our democracy, and the American dream itself?

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6. Your Kingdom…

The Kings’ failures were the fruits of greed and folly, but these men were better, wiser, and more inclined to become the rulers. Von Neiman stood and clapped his hands…”May we withdraw behind a veil of secrecy and become the puppet masters who, in the shadows, will become the invisible rulers, the unknown masters,” Von Neiman said. “To a new World Order!”

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5. The Five Arrows

“Yes, the Five Arrows, Amschel Mayer Rothschild, from Frankfurt, Salomon Mayer Rothschild, based in Vienna, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, in London, and Jakob Mayer Rothschild who resided in Paris, and Calmann Mayer Rothschild, in Italy. They were all bankers in their places of residence, all representing the Rothschild Banking empire under various names,” he said.

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4. Theater

At precisely five o’clock, Nathan Mayer Rothschild retired to the grand living room of the impressive New Court on St Swithin’s Lane; a most deserved moment of peace. A few days earlier, the rain had begun to fall over London, and while it varied in intensity, it had never ceased.

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3. Messengers

Caillou was a one-eyed beast of sorts—a disfigured being ravaged by fear and the violence of men; part cyclops, part gargoyle, and part man. A soldier amongst the thousands about to die on this dreary battlefield, he sat, sheltered from the torrential rain; silent, immobile, and apprehensive, waiting for the giant before him to move.

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2. Washington is Burning

At precisely five o’clock, Nathan Mayer Rothschild retired to the grand living room of the impressive New Court on St Swithin’s Lane; a most deserved moment of peace. A few days earlier, the rain had begun to fall over London, and while it varied in intensity, it had never ceased.

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1. The Pauper Made King

“Of the Founding Fathers, no dream was too grand to dismiss, and I salute them. However, I wish to dedicate all the honors to the builder of Nation, to the man who transformed ideas into realities, to the corruptible genius, to the man so blinded by honor it led him to his death, to the pauper made King; Alexander Hamilton, who helped us, in the words of Thomas Jefferson; “…form the most corrupt government on earth.”

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