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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797185903321

Autore

Singer Jane

Titolo

Lincoln's secret spy : the Civil War case that changed the future of espionage / / Jane Singer and John Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Guilford, Connecticut : , : Lyons Press, , 2015

[Place of distribution not identified] : , : Distributed by National Book Network, , [date of distribution not identified]

©2015

ISBN

1-4930-1738-1

1-4930-0810-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/85092

973.785092

Soggetti

Spies - United States - History - 19th century

Spies - United States

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Secret service

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Introduction""; ""1 I Was the President�s Spy""; ""2 My Old Kentucky Home""; ""3 Oh, to Be a Minstrel!""; ""4 W. Alvin Lloyd, Publisher""; ""5 Acolytes and Accomplices""; ""6 Escape from New York""; ""7 The Memphis Caper""; ""8 Of Actresses and Wives""; ""9 He Said He Would Hang Me""; ""10 Grave Suspicions""; ""11 Shot Down Like a Dog""; ""12 By Order of President Jefferson Davis""; ""13 Leaving Dixie""; ""14 Anatomy of a Fraud""; ""15 Lay of the Last Minstrel""; ""16 Post Lloyd Ergo Propter Lloyd""; ""Epilogue""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Sources""; ""Appendix""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>History remembers William Alvin Lloyd as the subject of </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Totten vs. United States</span><span>-which set precedent for espionage law-but was he a total fraud?</span><span style=""font-style:italic;""> Lincoln's Secret Spy </span><span>is a high-spirited historical caper about a notorious scoundrel who may have been Abraham Lincoln's secret agent in the Confederacy.  </span></span>