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Sto caricando le informazioni... Pinkerton's war : the Civil War's greatest spy and the birth of the U.S. Secret Servicedi Jay Bonansinga
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"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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)973.7History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil WarClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Before the Civil War Allan Pinkerton escorted John Brown and his party of escaping slaves to Canada. He invented the modern science/profession of detection. His Pinkerton Agency played a central role in thwarting the Baltimore assassination plot against Lincoln, prior to his inauguration. And, in the first years of the Civil War he invented the idea of the Secret Service, and ran spies and espionage operations against the South. His tale is a remarkable one, and well worth a few evenings. In the nature of a story about spies, this book conveys a great deal about the political and social world of the American polity in the early 1860s.
I don't know how his sons, who inherited the business, came to be union busters, but that is another story about different men and different times. The story of the original Pinkerton, Allan Pinkerton, is all about rising from rags and manual labor to become an emperor of intrigue, in the name of abolition and the cause of President Lincoln. Fun stuff, if you are of a certain mind.
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