This book provides an in-depth account of his life and legacy
Alan Pinkerton, the world's most famous private investigator, has been a source of inspiration and intrigue since the 19th century. However, details of his influence, business empire, and personal life remain incomplete.Drawing on little-known primary sources, Rhodri Jeffries-Jones provides an authoritative account of Pinkerton and the Pinkerton National Investigative Agency (PNDA). The book tells the story of how the agency's founder and successive generations placed the agency at the center of American history for decades. Pinkerton's activities included, but were not limited to, providing intelligence during the Civil War, pursuing prominent outlaws such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and protecting workers who broke strikes in...Homestead, which earned them notoriety. The book continues the history of the agency into the twentieth century, and analyzes the legacy of Pinkertonism to the present day.
General readers as well as scholars of American history will be fascinated by this rich new portrait of Pinkerton's accomplishments, controversies, and contradictions.
