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...POWER AND THE PRIZE (326 pp.)-Howard Swiggett-Ballantine...
...PINKERTON STORY (366 pp.)-James D. Horan & Howard Swiggett-Putnam...
Presidential Plot. The Reno escapades form the opening salvo in the drumfire of bandit tales Authors Horan and Swiggett have let loose in their history of Pinkerton's National ("We Never Sleep") Detective Agency. The Pinkerton Story reads too much like a collection of Sunday-supplement pieces, but the raw material survives anything writers...
...HOWARD SWIGGETT...
...Civil War broke, Morgan and his "terrible men" were ready. Morgan was a regular officer, and took orders (when he felt like it) from his superiors, but the North persisted in regarding him as an irregular, capable of every atrocity from horse-stealing to killing the wounded. Biographer Swiggett says Morgan obeyed the rules of civilized warfare, but admits his men were fond of ambushing Federal pickets, of suddenly displaying a flag of truce to get themselves out of a tight corner. Braxton West Pointer, who was Morgan's nominal commander, disliked him, disapproved of his aims and methods...