Pinkerton S War

Author : S. Paul O'Hara
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421420578

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Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs by S. Paul O'Hara Pdf

The fascinating story of the most notorious detective agency in US history. Between 1865 and 1937, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency was at the center of countless conflicts between capital and labor, bandits and railroads, and strikers and state power. Some believed that the detectives were protecting society from dangerous criminal conspiracies; others thought that armed Pinkertons were capital’s tool to crush worker dissent. Yet the image of the Pinkerton detective also inspired romantic and sensationalist novels, reflected shifting ideals of Victorian manhood, and embodied a particular kind of rough frontier justice. Inventing the Pinkertons examines the evolution of the agency as a pivotal institution in the cultural history of American monopoly capitalism. Historian S. Paul O’Hara intertwines political, social, and cultural history to reveal how Scottish-born founder Allan Pinkerton insinuated his way to power and influence as a purveyor of valuable (and often wildly wrong) intelligence in the Union cause. During Reconstruction, Pinkerton turned his agents into icons of law and order in the Wild West. Finally, he transformed his firm into a for-rent private army in the war of industry against labor. Having begun life as peddlers of information and guardians of mail bags, the Pinkertons became armed mercenaries, protecting scabs and corporate property from angry strikers. O’Hara argues that American capitalists used the Pinkertons to enforce new structures of economic and political order. Yet the infamy of the Pinkerton agent also gave critics and working communities a villain against which to frame their resistance to the new industrial order. Ultimately, Inventing the Pinkertons is a gripping look at how the histories of American capitalism, industrial folklore, and the nation-state converged.

Author : David Ricardo Williams
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550023060

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Call in Pinkerton's by David Ricardo Williams Pdf

Soon after Allan Pinkerton established his legendary detective agency in the United States, Canadians began seeking their services. Call in Pinkerton's is the history of the agency's work on behalf of Canadian governments and police forces. During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Pinkerton's operatives hunted legendary train robber Bill Miner in the woods of British Columbia, infiltrated German spy rings during World War I, and helped future prime minister John A. Macdonald to fend off the Fenian raids. They tracked down the Reno Brothers in Windsor, Ontario, and investigated labour unrest in Hamilton. The agency's detectives countered crimes all over Canada, particularly in the West and British Columbia. Pinkerton's activities went as far north as the Yukon, where fears were growing of an imminent invasion by a force of Americans from Alaska. Call in Pinkerton's is the first book to chronicle the agency's work on behalf of Canadian governments and police forces. This entertaining book provides accounts of actual Pinkerton's investigations while detailing the day-to-day activities of a private detective at work. Call in Pinkerton's is a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in crime and espionage.

Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Dummies (Bookselling
ISBN : UCSC:32106000611993

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The Spy of the Rebellion by Allan Pinkerton Pdf

Author : Jay Bonansinga
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762775590

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Pinkerton's War by Jay Bonansinga Pdf

A thrilling historical account of Allan Pinkerton’s pivotal role in the Civil War and the birth of the Secret Service Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton is best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which gained renown for solving train robberies in the 1850s and battling the labor movement in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. But the central drama of his career, and the focus of this book, was his work as protector of President Abraham Lincoln and head of a network of Union spies (including himself!) who posed as Confederate soldiers and sympathizers in a deadly cat-and-mouse game. As here told in riveting prose by author Jay Bonansinga, Pinkerton’s politics and abolitionist sympathies drew the attention of supporters of presidential incumbent Abraham Lincoln—and Pinkerton was hired to act as his bodyguard. Pinkerton was asked to organize the U.S. government’s first “Secret Service,” and during the Civil War he managed a network of spies who worked behind confederate lines and tackled espionage at the highest levels in Washington. By war’s end, the agency’s reputation was so well established that it was often hired by the government to perform many of the same duties today assigned to the Secret Service, the FBI, the CIA, and, most recently, the Department of Homeland Security. -- Bonansigna is also the author of the novelization of the huge hit television series The Walking Dead, a book titled The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor.

Author : Eric Lerner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0805082786

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Pinkerton's Secret by Eric Lerner Pdf

A provocative love story, conjuring up the passionate life of the Civil War era's legendary private eye, his dramatic exploits, and his clandestine affair with his partner, the first female detective.

Author : Jay R. Bonansinga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0762770724

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Pinkerton's War by Jay R. Bonansinga Pdf

"A thrilling historical account of Allan Pinkerton's pivotal role as spymaster of the Civil War and forefather of the Secret Service"--P. [4] of jacket.

Author : John Stewart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476679075

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Pinkertons, Prostitutes and Spies by John Stewart Pdf

Hattie Lawton was a young Pinkerton detective who with her partner, Timothy Webster, spied for the U.S. Secret Service during the Civil War. Working in Richmond, the two posed as husband and wife. A dazzling blonde from New York and a handsome Englishman, both with checkered pasts, they were matched in charm, cunning, duplicity and boldness. Betrayed by their own spymaster, Allan Pinkerton, they fell into the hands of the dictator of Richmond, the notorious General John H. "Hog" Winder. This lively history, scrupulously researched from all available sources, corrects the record on many points and definitively answers the long-standing question of Hattie Lawton's true identity.

Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544623194

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The Spy of the Rebellion by Allan Pinkerton Pdf

THE SPY OF THE REBELLION As Told By The Famous Allan Pinkerton: Founder Of The Pinkerton Detective Agency, And Head Of The "UNION Intelligence Service" During The Civil War. "Real History" is told by people it happened to, and you cannot experience more reality than hearing about spies and counterspies during the Civil War from the man who ran operations from the Union side - Allan Pinkerton. Already a famous detective, Pinkerton was called on to aid his country - first to prevent an assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, and then to head a group of brave men and women charged with rooting out secession, in both North and South. This exciting first-hand account of what actually happened to those men and women is a historical and literary gem, one which, even 130+ years later, has immense meaning to America.

Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080074610

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The Spy of the Rebellion by Allan Pinkerton Pdf

Author : John Stewart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476637518

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Pinkertons, Prostitutes and Spies by John Stewart Pdf

Hattie Lawton was a young Pinkerton detective who with her partner, Timothy Webster, spied for the U.S. Secret Service during the Civil War. Working in Richmond, the two posed as husband and wife. A dazzling blonde from New York and a handsome Englishman, both with checkered pasts, they were matched in charm, cunning, duplicity and boldness. Betrayed by their own spymaster, Allan Pinkerton, they fell into the hands of the dictator of Richmond, the notorious General John H. "Hog" Winder. This lively history, scrupulously researched from all available sources, corrects the record on many points and definitively answers the long-standing question of Hattie Lawton's true identity.

Author : James David Horan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0709116802

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The Pinkertons by James David Horan Pdf

Author : Martin Farr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135776596

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Reginald McKenna by Martin Farr Pdf

Reginald McKenna has never been the subject of scholarly attention. This was partly due to his own preference for appearing at the periphery of events even when ostensibly at the centre, and the absence of a significant collection of private papers. This new book redresses the neglect of this major statesmen and financier partly through the natural advance of historical research, and partly by the discoveries of missing archival material. McKenna's role is now illuminated by his own reflections, and by the correspondence of friends and colleagues, including Asquith, Churchill, Keynes, Baldwin, Bonar Law, MacDonald, and Chamberlain. McKenna's presence at the hub of political life in the first half of the century is now clear: in the radical Liberal governments of 1905–16, where he acted as a lightning conductor for the party; during the war, where he served as the Prime Minister's deputy and the principal voice for restraint in the conduct of the war; and as chairman of the world's largest bank, where until his death in office aged eighty, he prompted progressive policies to deal with the issues of war debt, trade, mass unemployment, and the return to gold.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Homestead Strike, Homestead, Pa., 1892
ISBN : PURD:32754082304738

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Investigation of the Employment of Pinkerton Detectives in Connection with the Labor Troubles at Homestead, Pa by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1561 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547683759

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The Greatest Detective Books of Allan Pinkerton by Allan Pinkerton Pdf

Musaicum Press presents to you a collection of true crime and detective stories written by the Allan Pinkerton. Contents: The Expressman and the Detective The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller The Spiritualists and the Detectives Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives Poisoner and the Detectives Bucholz and the Detectives The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives The Spy of the Rebellion

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493030668

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The Pinks by Chris Enss Pdf

The true story of Kate Warne and the other women who served as Pinkertons, fulfilling the adage, “Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History.” Most students of the Old West and American law enforcement history know the story of the notorious and ruthless Pinkerton Detective Agency and the legends behind their role in establishing the Secret Service and tangling with Old West Outlaws. But the true story of Kate Warne, an operative of the Pinkerton Agency and the first woman detective in America—and the stories of the other women who served their country as part of the storied crew of crime fighters—are not well known. For the first time, the stories of these intrepid women are collected here and richly illustrated throughout with numerous historical photographs. From Kate Warne’s probable affair with Allan Pinkerton, and her part in saving the life of Abraham Lincoln in 1861 to the lives and careers of the other women who broke out of the Cult of True Womanhood in pursuit of justice, these true stories add another dimension to our understanding of American history.