For those of you who have access to the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/27/book ... nmetz.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/27/book ... nmetz.html
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On April 5, 1882, Theodore Roosevelt stood in the New York State Assembly and demanded an investigation. The indignant 23-year-old accused a clique of “swindlers,” “wealthy stock gamblers,” “men whose financial dishonesty is a matter of common notoriety,” of corruptly monopolizing New York City’s elevated railroads. The plot’s mastermind, he implied, was Jay Gould.
Three cheers for the bad guy. The villain seizes control of the story, scheming, lying and betraying to get what he wants. And Jay Gould, the subject of Greg Steinmetz’s concise new biography, “American Rascal,” makes an excellent villain. Endlessly resourceful, utterly self-interested, he authored “the blackest pages in the history of American railways,” to quote his obituary in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Cartoonists drew him as a black-bearded spider, laying traps in the web of rails and wires that wrapped the country.
George in Rochester NY
The Unofficial Micro-Trains Release Report (among other things)
The Unofficial Micro-Trains Release Report (among other things)
