(Free read ebook) Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs: Being a story of the nation’s most famous (and infamous) detective agency
❀ S. Paul O'Hara ❀
| #847499 in Books | O Hara S Paul | 2016-08-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.78 x6.00l,.0 | File Name: 1421420562 | 216 pages | Inventing the Pinkertons Or Spies Sleuths Mercenaries and Thugs Being a Story of the Nation s Most Famous and Infamous Detective Agency
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A thorough retelling of the Pinkerton story in light of the times.|By Keenan|Written by a history professor, this book is not as dry as one would expect. Deftly woven is the role of popular crime fiction from the works of Edgar Allen Poe through Dashiell Hammett into the story of the Pinkertons through Blackwater, that it becomes apparent how Allen Pinkerton's savvy exploitati|||"For fans of the American West as well as true crime buffs." (Library Journal)
|"This detailed, fascinating book taps into the emerging popular culture focusing on the detective story to examine the transformation of the Pinkerton Agency fr
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, reflecte...
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