Roberto Carlos Gonzalez Reyes, Author at Minds That Created the Future

Story collection

Documented stories gathered around a shared theme.

Hannah Arendt: The Woman Who Refused to Think as She Was Told

From exile to political theory: totalitarianism, responsibility, and the difficult task of thinking for oneself.

Goethe, Romanticism, and memory: a life of travel, writing, and the exploration of dreams.

Photography, Asmat art and a disappearance in 1961: the documented record and the limits of theories about Michael Rockefeller.

From vaudeville to Essanay and Mack Sennett: the physical craft and public image of a silent-comedy pioneer.

From Mexico to the Banda Gigante: the musical ear, collaborators and recordings behind the Wildman of Rhythm.

Portraits, sculpture, illness and Jeanne Hébuterne: the documented life behind the myth of the cursed artist.

The woman behind the Ouija name: patents, family memories and the psychology of a game that became a cultural myth.

Two terms as prime minister, a political dynasty and an assassination: her achievements, contradictions and the findings of the UN inquiry.

A five-month papacy, a voluntary resignation and the captivity that followed: evidence and legend in the life of Pietro da Morrone.

Autocracy, family, revolution and the evidence that ended the Romanov survival myths.