F L Light

The drama is framed like a Sophoclean tragedy, with seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral episodes of New York reporters....

Jay Gould, though consumption has first come forth into his lungs, purchases the sovereign share of Union Pacific....

As a work of English literature this audiobook should be gauged by Shakespearean measures. A voice of resolute vociferation is required to speak these couplets well....

Jay Gould sought to yoke a corner on the gold market in August and September, 1869. His endeavor came to a head on September 24....

In 1863, under the instigation of his former associate, Daniel Drew, the New York State Legislature betrayed Commodore Vanderbilt, withdrawing the permit for his extension of the Harlem Railroad....

1844 maxims of rhythmic justice and assertive rhyme, carried forward in the cause of human dissimilarity upon competitive pretensions for rewards, merciless poetry manifest....

The Broadway Rapture is of historical fights for capital superiority....

The longer that Jay Gould was chief shareholder of Union Pacific, the more advancements for the railroad and for his own system of roads he procured....

Jay Gould returns to Colorado in a second attempt to combine the Kansas Pacific Railroad and her extensions with the Union Pacific....

On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, under erosive overflows from eight inches of rain, dissolved, a flood unloosing on the narrow valley below, with Johnstown 14 miles down....

In San Francisco, the new Bank of California would branch itself in Virginia City, Nevada, a mining town situated on a mountain side over the Comstock Lode of silver....

In the 1870's, almost all capital for major mines in California and other western territories was centered in San Francisco, where a chief bank officer pursued investments....

James Burbage, the founder of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's acting company, is countered by Lady Elizabeth Russell when he constructs a theatre....

The earls of Essex and Southampton are tried together for high treason before a jury of the noblest peers....

Rodrigo Lopez, former physician to Queen Elizabeth, and his supposed accessories are questioned in the Tower on the charge of treason....

1476 couplets contrast the outsiders of the state with the insiders of particular societies of American commerce....

In diverse financial scrimmages, Jay Gould and his adversaries fought to survive and prosper in the difficult markets of the early 1880s....

Proficere in Latin means to go forward, and in pursuit of profit to the fore Fred Light goes with 1117 couplets as rhythmic as the prosperous esprit of commerce and finance....

There is no drama where the total multiplicity of horror in defeat is more cogently presented than in The Persians by Aeschylus....

This play is one of the Gouldium, a series of dramas on the life and times of Jay Gould....