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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
Author
Publisher
Harmony
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first African-American agent to serve on the White House Secret Service detail describes the racism he confronted, his efforts to expose the Secret Service's negligence in JFK's assassination, and the destruction of his career due to a false bribery charge.
Author
Publisher
Center Street, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A look at the inner workings of the U.S. Secret Service shares insights into the reactionary approaches of the agency's increasingly politicized management and how new strategies are placing presidential security at risk.
Author
Language
English
Description
Since publication of his bestselling book In the President's Secret Service, investigative reporter Ronald Kessler has continued to penetrate the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, breaking the story that Secret Service agents who were to protect President Obama hired prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia and revealing that the Secret Service allowed a third uninvited guest to crash a White House state dinner. Now, Kessler presents...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 532 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but...
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