Allan Pinkerton: America’s Legendary Detective and the Birth of Private Security - Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Written by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Read by Adam Barr
Format: Mixed
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
Full Audiobook in Mp3 & M4b Formats
Ebook included.

A deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eye

Allan 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.