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[[File:Pinkertons.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|<i>Inventing the Pinkertons</i> by S. Paul O'Hara]]
The Pinkerton National Detective Agency founded in the 19th Century founded by Allan Pinkerton is the most famous and infamous security guard and detective agency in United States history. Pinkerton originally created the agency to help railroad companies to control and monitor their employees. After , but over time the Civil War Pinkerton Agency developed an intimate relationship with the federal government and its role the Pinkerton Agency played in America grew dramatically. The agency provided personal security to Abraham Lincoln's during the Civil War. In the 1870s, were it was contracted by the Department of Justice Federal to investigate and help prosecute anyone capture people who violated federal law in the 1870s, helped suppress labor strife and they even tracked down including outlaws such as Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It is probably most notorious for its role in helping businesses and the federal government suppress labor strife.
S. Paul O'Hara's new book <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1421420562/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1421420562&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=7319f5ed3bf6fb980909977ac68f7ddc Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs]</i> published by [https://www.press.jhu.edu/ John Hopkins University Press] attempts to separate the myth from reality and paint the real picture of the most famous private detective agency in United States history. JHU Press states O'Hara explains who "American capitalists used the Pinkertons to enforce new structures of economic and political order." Professor Maury Klein had said that the book not only explains"the convoluted tale" of the Pinkertons, but reads "like a detective novel."
