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Author |
: S. Paul O'Hara |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2016-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421420578 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421420570 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs by : S. Paul O'Hara
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 |
: James David Horan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 564 |
Release |
: 1970 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0709116802 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780709116806 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pinkertons by : James David Horan
Author |
: Eric Lerner |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2008-03-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0805082786 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780805082784 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pinkerton's Secret by : Eric Lerner
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 |
: Martin Farr |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2004-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135776596 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135776598 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reginald McKenna by : Martin Farr
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 |
: Marissa Moss |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 29 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781939547330 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1939547334 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kate Warne by : Marissa Moss
A biography of Kate Warne, the first woman detective in the U.S after being hired by the Pinkerton Agency in 1856.
Author |
: Judith Pinkerton Josephson |
Publisher |
: Lerner Publications |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822549239 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822549239 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Allan Pinkerton by : Judith Pinkerton Josephson
The Original Private Eye.
Author |
: Morris Friedman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1907 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044018988964 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pinkerton's Labor Spy by : Morris Friedman
Author |
: Chris Enss |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 185 |
Release |
: 2017-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781493030668 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1493030663 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pinks by : Chris Enss
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.
Author |
: Beau Riffenburgh |
Publisher |
: Viking Adult |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0670025461 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780670025466 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pinkerton's Great Detective by : Beau Riffenburgh
The story of the legendary detective credited with the defeat of the Molly Maguires gang and Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch offers insight into his innovative "cloak-and-dagger" methods and his investigation into the Western Federation of Mines for the assassination of Idaho's former governor. 25,000 first printing.
Author |
: David Ricardo Williams |
Publisher |
: Dundurn |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 1998-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781550023060 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1550023063 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Call in Pinkerton's by : David Ricardo Williams
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.