The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower
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The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower
In February 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham Lincoln faced a “clear and fully matured” threat of assassination as he traveled by train from Springfield to Washington for his inauguration. Over a period of thirteen days, the legendary detective Allan Pinkerton worked feverishly to detect and thwart the plot, assisted by a captivating young widow named Kate Warne, America’s first female private eye.
As Lincoln’s train roll inexorably toward Baltimore,” the seat of danger,” Pinkerton struggled to unravel the ever-changing details of the murder plot, even as he contended with the intractability of Lincoln and his advisers, who refused to believe that the danger was real. With time running out, Pinkerton took a desperate gamble, staking Lincoln’s life – and the future of the nation – on a “perilous feint” that seemed to offer the only chance that Lincoln would survive to become president. Shrouded in secrecy – and later mired in controversy – the story of the “Baltimore Plot” is one of the great untold tales of the Civil War era, and Daniel Stashower has crafted this spellbinding historical narrative with the pace and urgency of a race-against-the-clock thriller.
Minotaur Books, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2013, 354 pages
This is a BRAND NEW book.
In February 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham Lincoln faced a “clear and fully matured” threat of assassination as he traveled by train from Springfield to Washington for his inauguration. Over a period of thirteen days, the legendary detective Allan Pinkerton worked feverishly to detect and thwart the plot, assisted by a captivating young widow named Kate Warne, America’s first female private eye.
As Lincoln’s train roll inexorably toward Baltimore,” the seat of danger,” Pinkerton struggled to unravel the ever-changing details of the murder plot, even as he contended with the intractability of Lincoln and his advisers, who refused to believe that the danger was real. With time running out, Pinkerton took a desperate gamble, staking Lincoln’s life – and the future of the nation – on a “perilous feint” that seemed to offer the only chance that Lincoln would survive to become president. Shrouded in secrecy – and later mired in controversy – the story of the “Baltimore Plot” is one of the great untold tales of the Civil War era, and Daniel Stashower has crafted this spellbinding historical narrative with the pace and urgency of a race-against-the-clock thriller.
Minotaur Books, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2013, 354 pages
This is a BRAND NEW book.
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