Author Archives: bobbybuccellato
Reviews and Blurbs for the New Book Lincoln’s Ghost: Our Haunted Presidency
“Even a president as down to earth as Harry Truman sometimes wondered if the White House was haunted. Is it? In Lincoln’s Ghost, Robert Buccellato goes searching for the answer. Along the way he brings to life the many strange, weird, and paranormal things our commanders in chief and their families have encountered. Combining rigorous […]
McKinley’s Ghost and a Bull Moose
The following is an excerpt from my new book Lincoln’s Ghost: Our Haunted Presidency. In the darkness of a modest rented single room John Flammang Schrank, a Bavarian-born saloonkeeper was awakened with a terrible fright. Rising high above him was the pale and slowly decaying corpse or spirit of a former President. Trying desperately to […]
Truman and Churchill
Today is Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday! This is the first of several excerpts to be run exclusively on TFS from my forthcoming book which will be published by A Florida Squeeze Publication – Lincoln’s Ghost: Our Haunted Presidency. Harry Truman wrote from the White House, “I sit here in this old house and work on foreign […]
Illegality comes naturally to us Floridians
The following is an excerpt from the new book Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida : A Second Batch. The sun is slowly setting over the Florida Capitol Complex, covering the walkways along the plaza in a cool and inviting shade. Exiting this beautiful and historic sight I am bathed by the dimming light […]
As a Son of a Sailor
Today my home state of Florida lost one of its dearest and truest friends. In a state as divided as ours it’s sometimes difficult to find a unifying presence that everyone could get behind. Jimmy Buffett was such a figure. The poet laureate of beachfront observations, the Lincoln of flip flop melodies. Part buzzed soulful […]
LBJ knew how to build a majority party – today’s Democrats do not
In 1937 LBJ climbed on the flatbed of an old broken down Ford TT Truck in the hill country of Texas. The Incumbent congressman had just died and Johnson was desperate to fill the seat. “What do you want to talk to us about Lyndon,” an old dirt farmer asked. Johnson pointed to the power lines […]
Democrats must make a play for Red America
After Florida outlawed partisan gerrymandering in 2010, state politicians said they wanted the people to draw our new electoral maps. What that meant was they wanted Right Wing Lobbyists to draw up the maps and then hand them out during town halls throughout the state. For years my Congressional district ran from the outskirts of […]
Neal Dunn is wasting a congressional seat
Florida’s 2nd Congressional District is the largest congressional district in Florida by land area and consists of all of Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Taylor, Wakulla, Washington counties, portions of Holmes, and Lafayette. It’s massive absurdly, ridiculously, large. The kind of district designed by a bored majority party that wants to make […]
Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida, Volume Two is days away
On this week’s Florida History Podcast we discuss Friday’s release of Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida, Volume 2. You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which hosts our show), Spotify, Google, Apple Podcasts, Radio Public, Breaker, Overcast, Castro or Pocket Casts. Overcast, Castro, Spotify, Radio Public and Breaker have App Store apps for free which enable you to subscribe and listen […]
Talking to Kartik Krishnaiyer about his new book: Runaway slaves and free blacks in Florida, missions burnt, piracy, war, colonial settlements and more!
In a bit of role reversal, this week I host and interview Kartik Krishnaiyer about his new book, Florida and the British Before the American Revolution. Topics discussed include a frank discussion about runaway slaves and how Florida was different than other southern colonies as well as an all encompassing discussion of the book and […]
The Florida Squeeze 