Allan Pinkerton

America's Legendary Detective and the Birth of Private Security

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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A deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eyeAllan Pinkerton, the world's most famous private detective, has been an enduring source of fascination since the nineteenth century. But the details of his impact, business empire, and private life have been incomplete.Drawing on overlooked primary sources, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones provides an authoritative account of the man and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (PNDA). It is the story of how PNDA's founder and its successive generations of heirs put it at the center of American history for decades. A small sampling of Pinkerton's activities includes providing intelligence in the Civil War, pursuing high-profile outlaws like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and protecting scabs in the Homestead lockout, for which they became notorious. The book continues telling PNDA's history into the twentieth century and analyzes the legacies of Pinkertonism up to the present.General readers as well as scholars of American history will be fascinated by this rich new portrait of Pinkerton's accomplishments, controversies, and contradictions.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-02
Mått:162 x 233 x 28 mm
Vikt:581 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Georgetown University Press
ISBN:9781647125844

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Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is the author or editor of nearly twenty books, including The Nazi Spy Ring in America (GUP 2020) and A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA (2022).

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Allan Pinkerton offers a riveting account of a largely overlooked figure whose shadow still looms over modern law enforcement and private security.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Gorbals Man2. The Revolutionary3. Escape to America4. Pinkerton & Co.5. The Baltimore Plot to Assassinate Lincoln6. A Secret Service7. The Secret Service8. Labor Violence a New Source of Income9. McParland Tilts at the Molly Maguires10. Inventing Anti-Communism11. Inventing Private Detection12. Jesse James as Robin Hood13. The Death of the Founder14. Odyssey of the Son15. Pinkertons in the Haymarket Trial16. The Homestead Lockout and the End of Legitimacy17. Anti-Pinkerton Legislation18. Sundance and the Setting of the Western Sun19. The Trial of the Wobblies20. The Verdict21. The BofI: Challenge and Succession22. Private Rivals23. Of Harvard and Hammett24. The LaFollette Inquiry25. A Corporate Era26. Who Was the Greatest Detective of Them All?ConclusionList of Primary Source Archives and of Abbreviations Used in the NotesNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

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