Robert Reynolds: 560 books

Meyer Lansky ran a gambling casino in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, New York in the 1950s. His partner, Joseph "Doc" Stacher, was a Ukranian-Jewish immigrant who was raised in New York City near Lansky and Bugsy Siegel. Stacher was also a silent partner in the Sands Hotels casino and other...

Alexander Stephens was a diminutive and sickly man. A lawyer who attended Franklin College, the school eventually became the University of Georgia. Alexander served in the Georgia legislature and later in both houses of Congress. As a young man he was assigned to an orphan's home. An intriguing person,...

Albert Anastasia is perhaps best known for having been murdered while he was sitting in a barber's chair. Many are unaware of his early years as a Mafia operative on the Brooklyn waterfront. In the early 1940s he established himself as an extortionist who seized $35,000-$40,000 at a time from...

Estelle Carey was a photographer's model and dice girl in a Rush Street nightclub. Her boyfriend, Nick Circella, alias Nick Dean, owned the club. Carey was employed to entice customers who played low stakes legal gambling games to try the more expensive high stakes games offered on the club's...

Wiliiam J. "Wild Bill" Lovett was an Irish gangster whose pursuit of Al Capone led to Scarface exiting New York City for Chicago. A deal was worked out by Chicago mobster Johnny Torrio to move Capone after Wild Bill pursued him for killing an underling. Bill Lovett was chief of the White Hand Gang,...

Beginning with the arrests of two Washington, DC photographers for explicit photos of underage women my e-book looks at a variety of controversial photographs. Among these was a Victorian era image of a matronly woman of 50+ years. She permitted photographers to take a nude photo of her in her boudoir....

Lake Pontchartrain is a saltwater lake in southeast Louisiana that is approximately 30 miles from end to end. My e-book looks at plane crashes that have occurred in the lake from 1949-2014. The majority of the crashes I have researched are small planes but there are several that I have included of...

A Venezuelan Airlines Super Constellation filled with students returning from their studies in the United States crashed after midnight in June 1956. Out of U.S. territorial waters, the airliner plunged into the Atlantic Ocean approximately 32 miles from Asbury Park. All 64 persons on board were killed....

Vincent Gigi Portella Marino is a New England Mafioso who is currently serving time in Louisiana for attempted murder. Involved in the violent breakup of the former Raymond Patriarca New England mob, he is also well known for a tracking device that may have been planted in his buttocks. Whether this...

A plane crash in the Portuguese Azores in October 1949 was devastating to the worlds of boxing and concert music. The tragedy took the life of Marcel Cerdan, a former middleweight champion and the most talented and revered French athlete of the post World War II era. Ginette Neveu, a violin virtuoso...

Clara Barton was the most well known woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century. She founded the American Red Cross after traveling to Switzerland on one of her many trips to Europe. From a small town in Massachusetts, Barton gained a fine reputation treating the wounded in the American Civil...

Some historians believe Tamerlane exceeds his Mongol predecessor Genghis Khan as a conqueror. The former began his career with the suppression of Persia. He followed this closely by triumphs over the Ottoman Turks and their Sultan Byezid I. My e-book considers Tamerlane's years as both conqueror and...

Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus were both searching for a nautical route to India when they set out on their voyages, in 1497 and 1492, respectively. Columbus sailed west while da Gama sailed east after voyaging south to the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa. My book looks at the time...

Leif Erikson was an 11th Century Norse explorer who left Norway and sailed from Iceland to North America. It is uncertain exactly where he landed in America, likely somewhere between Maine and New Jersey. There has been speculation that the Viking came ashore on the Charles River near Gerry's...