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The Pinkerton National Detective Agency was security guard and detective agency created to help companies to control their employees by Allan Pinkerton. After the Civil War the role the Pinkertons played in America grew dramatically. They served as Abraham Lincoln's personal security during the Civil War, were contracted by the Department of Justice Federal to investigate and help prosecute anyone who violated federal law in the 1870s, were used to suppress labor and they even tracked down outlaws such as Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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."
S. Paul O'Hara is an associate professor at Xavier University and he also the author of <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0253222885/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0253222885&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=7d543bdc054e0d772b0f0d024c4d198f Gary: The Most American of All American Cities]</i>.
Here is out interview with Professor O'Hara.
