Pinkerton's War: The Civil War's Greatest Spy and the Birth of the U.S. Secret Service

by Jay Bonansinga

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762770724
• ISBN13: 9780762770724
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"