Reynolds: 2056 books

Book cover of Orson Welles War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast October 30, 1938
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

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...
Book cover of College Women Nude Art And Photo Models
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017

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...
Book cover of Hymie Loudmouth Levine Capone, Chicago, Gambling and Bootlegging
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016

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...
Book cover of Xerox Years of Growth & Innovation
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015

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...
Book cover of Richard Kauffman St. Louis Browns First Baseman
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013

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...
Book cover of Fred Wacker
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

Fred Wacker was a Formula 1 driver from the Chicago area who drove for Gordini among other marques. He became President of the Chicago Chapter of the Sports Car Club of America. Fred stressed safety issues, especially crowd control and the safety of sports car drivers. Wacker married a singer named...
Book cover of Elysium Fire
by Alastair Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018

Elysium Fire is a smoldering tale of murderers, secret cultists, tampered memories, and unthinkable power, of bottomless corruption and overpowering idealism from the king of modern space opera. Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic...
Book cover of Varina Howell Davis First Lady of the Confederate States of America
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017

Varina Howell Davis was the granddaughter of Richard Howell, the third governor of New Jersey. Her father, William Burr Howell, came to Natchez, Mississippi where Varina was raised in the Antebellum South. William Burr Howell's bankruptcy during his daughter's youth affected her throughout...
Book cover of George Washington Keefe
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013

My E-Book looks at George Washington Keefe from the perspective of a player and family member. He was the son of a diabled Pennsylvania Union Civil War soldier. Charles Keefe was a cabinetmaker who drew a pension after being wounded as a reservist in combat with the Pennsylvania infantry. His son,...
Book cover of Dutch Schultz German Jewish-American Mobster
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015

Dutch Schultz made the big time of racketeers when he entered the business of speakeasies. From a respectable Bronx family Schultz served time on Roosevelt Island for a minor offense that he committed in 1919. When he was paroled he got into speakeasies, partnering with James Noe after a brief stint...
Book cover of Morris "Moe" Kleinman Cleveland Mobster
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017

Morris "Moe" Kleinman was a bootlegger in Cleveland who switched into gambling rackets at the end of Prohibition. Kleinman was associated with Louis Rothkopf, Moe Dalitz, Samuel Tucker and other Cleveland mobsters of the 1930s and later. My e-book looks at Kleinman's criminal career. particularly...
Book cover of Bradley University Basketball and the 1949-1950 Gambling Scandal
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017

Bradley University was among the best college basketball teams in the United States entering the 1949-1950 basketball season. Some observers and pundits believed they were the finest. The Braves were led by their 5'8" point guard Gene Melchiorre. The star player and two of his teammates were...
Book cover of WrestleCrap
by Randy Baer and R.D. Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2003

WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Professional Wrestling examines some of the ridiculously horrible characters and storylines that pro wrestling promoters have subjected their fans to over the past twenty years. Why would any sane person think that having two grown men fight over a turkey was actually...
Book cover of Presentation Zen

Presentation Zen

Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

by Garr Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011

Best-selling author and popular speaker Garr Reynolds is back in this newly revised edition of his classic, best-selling book, Presentation Zen, in which he showed readers there is a better way to reach the audience through simplicity and storytelling, and gave them the tools to confidently design...
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