Robert Reynolds: 560 books

My e-book considers a number of cases of booksellers and magazine dealers being arrested on obscenity charges. The most well-known of these was eventually decided in the United States Supreme Court. This case involved Times Square bookseller Louis Finkelstein who marketed the notorious serial "Nights...

Everett Shinn was a member of the Ashcan Art School and the Westport, Connecticut art colony. Most often his artistic themes dealt with the theater in New York, London and Paris. In 1928 his painting, "The Sexless Nude", was one of many works by various artists featured at an exhibit given by the...

Fred Trump was a visionary builder of homes in an era when homes were built with quality. He turned at as many as 300 homes at a time in Brooklyn neighborhoods during from the late 1930s through the 1950s. He built Trump Village somewhat afterward in the early 1960s. My e-book looks at his life from...

Jack Sharkey fought Primo Carnera at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn in 1931. His left hook decked the Italian giant and he won the bout comfortably. Several years later the two boxers met again, this time at the Garden Bowl in Long Island City. Many things had changed between the two fights. Carnera was...

Albert Ackalitis was a member of the Arsenal gang that staged the most lucrative robbery in the history of Brooklyn in 1934. This was the heist of a Rubel Ice Cream armored car. Ackalitis also thieved from truck drivers who operated near the Battery in New York City. Years later he was tutored as...

Barracuda are a potentially dangerous foe of both divers and anglers. It is important for persons who might come in contact with them, to understand their past actions, as recorded in news accounts. I have utilized newspapers and books from the twentieth century, and the 21st, to write details of...

Joseph Barboza was a hitman and associate for New England Mafia don Raymond Patriarcha and also Henry Tameleo. Barboza was in trouble with the law starting in 1945. In my research I found an article about him breaking out of Concord Reformatory in 1953. He escaped along with several other inmates...

Enrico Caruso died nearly one hundred years ago yet his legend has continued to grow over what is almost a century. Among his greatest legacies is the hard work ethic that he used to reach the top of his profession as an operatic tenor. His son, Enrico Jr., stressed what a hard worker his father was,...

My research has uncovered nude photography of university student models in California who posed for hardly anything in return for free photos of themselves in clothes. Another item that I came across was a 13-year study conducted by academics at Columbia University in New York City. Women at Harvard,...

Orson Welles Sunday evening broadcast of October 30, 1938 sparked a nationwide panic. Mercury Theater scriptwriters adapted the War of the Worlds novel written by H.G. Wells. Listeners who tuned in heard about Martians landing in Grovers Mill, New Jersey. It petrified them that the aliens had already...

College women posing nude was a controversial topic for many years. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1937, a coed was dismissed for posing for a drawing class. The college traditionally obtained their models from professionals in Chicago and Milwaukee. The young woman in question was both...

A July 1932 U.S. Government investigative report of the Al Capone syndicate identified Hymie Levine as a collector and lieutenant of Jack Greasy Thumb Guzik. Hymie was multifaceted in what he did. A used parts garage that he owned in Chicago doubled as a business where police who received protection...

Xerox Company was exceptional during the hard economic times that accompanied the Great Depression. After losing a small amount in 1929 the business began to expand its profits and workforce. Whereas many companies were either laying off workers or trimming their hours, Xerox was working their employees...

Richard Kauffman was a noteworthy star in baseball, football, and basketball at Susquehanna University, in the early 20th Century. He also coached the teams on which he played. My E-Book looks at his life as an athlete, as well as his ancestry. I have used ancestry records to detail much about Kauffman's...