Freedom's detective: the Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the man who masterminded America's first war on terror

Abstract

Prologue: Patrick County, Virginia, 1869 -- "Something terrible floats on the breeze." -- "You will all be blown to hell in short order." -- "He has worked his way through the labyrinth of lies." -- "A powerful instrument for good or evil." -- "The government secret agents were everywhere upon their track." -- "I am radically opposed to any organized system of espionage." -- "Suspicions come from Heaven."