The Kings Have Won Blog
Adrien Gold offers An In-Depth Look at Each Chapters, the History Behind them, Which parts were Fiction and which were Truth and how the Characters within Each story were created.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.