In this colorful narrative history, the founder of Pinkerton National Detective agency describes his successful thwarting of an assassination plot against President-elect Lincoln early in 1861 and his exploits as an operative during the crucial years of the Civil War. Allan Pinkerton, using the pseudonym of Major E. J. Allen, headed an espionage organization that fed information bout the Confederate Army to Major General George B. McClellan. At the heart of The Spy of the Rebellion are his entertaining anecdotes ...
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In this colorful narrative history, the founder of Pinkerton National Detective agency describes his successful thwarting of an assassination plot against President-elect Lincoln early in 1861 and his exploits as an operative during the crucial years of the Civil War. Allan Pinkerton, using the pseudonym of Major E. J. Allen, headed an espionage organization that fed information bout the Confederate Army to Major General George B. McClellan. At the heart of The Spy of the Rebellion are his entertaining anecdotes concerning the methods by which he recruited and managed his agents. Originally published in 1883, it is a fast-paced story full of narrow escapes, violent episodes, nefarious schemes, and candid conversations with the most famous and powerful people of the time. Here are the beleaguered General McClellan, the benign President Lincoln, the villainous Secretary of war Edwin Stanton, the notorious Rebel spy Mrs. Rose Greenhow, and countless others. In his introduction to this edition, Patrick Bass evaluates The Spy of the Rebellions as history, adding that it "serves historical comprehension in the same manner that good fiction often does, through almost subconscious means, through an indefinable feel for the milieu it imparts to the reader."
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Fine. No Dust Jacket. Size: 5 3/4" x 8 1/4"; FINE / NO DJ. Former library book. 666 pp. Pages are pristine: clean, unmarked, undamaged; library treatments are confined to the front endpaper. This is a reprint of the 1883 edition published by M.A. Winter & Hatch, Hartford, Connecticut, whose full title was: "The spy of the rebellion: being a true history of the spy system of the United States Army during the late rebellion, revealing many secrets of the war hitherto not made public." Includes all the original engraved illustrations. Boards covered in black fabric; silver titling on spine. No signs of shelfwear or rubbing, only flaw is a small area of smudging on the bottom right edge of textblock. Otherwise, in like-new condition.
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Good, some edgewear. Colonial & Other Wars-The American Civil War "Being a True History of the Spy System of the US Army During the Late Rebellion, Revealing many Secrets of the War hitherto not made Public. Compiled From Official Reports prepared for President Lincoln, General McClelland and the Provost-Marshal General". Pinkerton, the founder of the renowned Detective Agency, was the Chief of the US Secret Service. He recounts his successful thwarting of the attempt to assassinate Lincoln in 1861 and his activities in the Civil War as the Chief of the Secret Service. UL-XXXXXX. 666pp, 20 illustrations.
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