U.S. History Detective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook U.S. History Detective write by Steve Greif. This book was released on 2015-03-01. U.S. History Detective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
U.S. History Detective
U.S. History Detective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook U.S. History Detective write by Steve Greif. This book was released on 2015-08-01. U.S. History Detective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
World History Detective Level 1
World History Detective Level 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World History Detective Level 1 write by John De Gree. This book was released on 2014-01-06. World History Detective Level 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Freedom's Detective
Freedom's Detective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom's Detective write by Charles Lane. This book was released on 2019-04-09. Freedom's Detective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “This is a powerful, vitally important story, and Lane brings it to life with not only vast amounts of research but with a remarkable gift for storytelling that makes the pages fly by.” —Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt and Hero of the Empire Freedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era United States Secret Service and their battle against the Ku Klux Klan, through the career of its controversial chief, Hiram C. Whitley In the years following the Civil War, a new battle began. Newly freed African American men had gained their voting rights and would soon have a chance to transform Southern politics. Former Confederates and other white supremacists mobilized to stop them. Thus, the KKK was born. After the first political assassination carried out by the Klan, Washington power brokers looked for help in breaking the growing movement. They found it in Hiram C. Whitley. He became head of the Secret Service, which had previously focused on catching counterfeiters and was at the time the government’s only intelligence organization. Whitley and his agents led the covert war against the nascent KKK and were the first to use undercover work in mass crime—what we now call terrorism—investigations. Like many spymasters before and since, Whitley also had a dark side. His penchant for skulduggery and dirty tricks ultimately led to his involvement in a conspiracy that would bring an end to his career and transform the Secret Service. Populated by intriguing historical characters—from President Grant to brave Southerners, both black and white, who stood up to the Klan—and told in a brisk narrative style, Freedom’s Detective reveals the story of this complex hero and his central role in a long-lost chapter of American history.
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History write by Yunte Huang. This book was released on 2010-08-30. Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time "An ingenious and absorbing book…It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping story." —Jonathan Spence Hailed as “irrepressibly spirited and entertaining” (Pico Iyer, Time) and “a fascinating cultural survey” (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast), this provocative first biography of Charlie Chan presents American history in a way that it has never been told before. Yunte Huang ingeniously traces Charlie Chan from his real beginnings as a bullwhip-wielding detective in territorial Hawaii to his reinvention as a literary sleuth and Hollywood film icon. Huang finally resurrects the “honorable detective” from the graveyard of detested postmodern symbols and reclaims him as the embodiment of America’s rich cultural diversity. The result is one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year and a “deeply personal . . . voyage into racial stereotyping and the humanizing force of story telling” (Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times).
