Ed Reid

Ed Reid, author and journalist, exposed organized crime in New York and Las Vegas. Reid used his writing to fight corruption and, in 1951, his reporting for the Brooklyn Eagle earned the public service Pulitzer Prize.^[1] Reid, with Ovid Demaris, co-authored The Green Felt Jungle, a New York Times Best Seller for 23 weeks in 1964, that exposed greed and depravity in Las Vegas.^[2] The book connected then Senator Barry Goldwater to labor rackateer Willy Bioff. Goldwater threatened a libel suit against the publisher.^[3] Reid and his co-author, Ovid Demaris, were invited to join a panel on David Susskind's show "Open End" for a discussion of organized crime.^[4]

Works

• Reid, Ed, and Ovid Demaris. The Green Felt Jungle. New York: Trident Press, 1963.
• Reid, Ed. The Anatomy of Organized Crime in America: The Grim Reapers. Chicago: Regnery, 1969.
• Reid, Ed. Mafia. New York: Random House, 1952.
• Reid, Edward. The Shame of New York. [an Account of Crime and Corruption in the City of New York.]. Pp. 239. Victor Gollancz: London, 1954. ^[5]
• Reid, Ed. The Grim Reapers: The Anatomy of Organized Crime in America. New York: Bantam, 1970.
• Reid, Ed. Las Vegas: City Without Clocks. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1961.

References

1. "8 May 1951, Page 1 - The Brooklyn Daily Eagle at Newspapers.com".
2. "The Book That Tried to End Las Vegas". 4 September 2013.
3. Times, Charles Mohr; Special To The New York (1964-05-16). "GOLDWATER PLANS TO SUE OVER BOOK". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
4. "'OPEN END' LISTS CRIME DISCUSSION". The New York Times. 1964-02-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
5. PERLMUTTER, EMANUEL (October 18, 1953). "A Picture We Know: THE SHAME OF NEW YORK. By Ed Reid. 226 pp. New York: Random House.". New York Times. p. BR49.