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Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland
by Riffenburgh, Beau | HC | Good
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 0670025461
- Book Title
- Pinkerton's Great Detective : the Amazing Life and Times of James Mcparland
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
- Topic
- United States / 19th Century, Law Enforcement, United States / General
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 23.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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The story of the legendary Pinkerton detective who took down the Molly Maguires and the Wild Bunch The operatives of the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling were McParland's cases that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included the cunning detective in a story along with Sherlock Holmes. Riffenburgh digs deep into the recently released Pinkerton archives to present the first biography of McParland and the agency's cloak-and-dagger methods. Both action packed and meticulously researched, Pinkerton's Great Detective brings readers along on McParland's most challenging cases: from young McParland's infiltration of the murderous Molly Maguires gang in the case that launched his career to his hunt for the notorious Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch to his controversial investigation of the Western Federation of Mines in the assassination of Idaho's former governor. Filled with outlaws and criminals, detectives and lawmen, Pinkerton's Great Detective shines a light upon the celebrated secretive agency and its premier sleuth.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670025461
ISBN-13
9780670025466
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167931082
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pinkerton's Great Detective : the Amazing Life and Times of James Mcparland
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 19th Century, Law Enforcement, United States / General
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
23.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv7911.M3884r54 2013
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Reviews
"Locating the real James McParland amid the invective, acclaim and invention (including his own) is no easy task, and Beau Riffenburgh, author of ''Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition,' has made good use of the recently released Pinkerton archives.... McParland was the prototype of a character that has become an adored part of America's cultural landscape, the hard-boiled gumshoe, the lone sleuth in search of justice." -Ben McIntyre, The New York Times "Revisiting archives and reintroducing historical context, Riffenburgh unfolds a measured, thought-provoking tale of mine-centered mayhem." - American History "Thanks to Riffenburgh, it is not hard to divine the truth. McParland was neither a demon nor a saint. This is no copout. The man belonged to an age ravaged by violence and conflict, and his job as he understood it was to capture the guilty.... He was not always in the right, but he broke with the right less often and less deliberately than the criminals he hunted. That is as much heroism as Riffenburgh, a great detective in his own right, has managed to find in this alien, tumultuous time." - The Christina Science Monitor "Riffenburgh navigates… [a] moral quagmire deftly, contextualizing McParland and his far more violent time, while simultaneously deconstructing the image of the 'Great Detective.'" -The Daily Beast
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2013-017204
Dewey Decimal
363.28/9092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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