Death to Traitors

Mogelever, Jacob

Published by Doubleday, New York, 1960

About this Item

Includes bibliography and index. Book is just like new: spotless and completely free of wear or damage. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. It shows light soiling and has a few chips and tears along top and bottom edges, the deepest of which is about 1". Will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. "In Death to Traitors, Jacob Mogelever tells for the first time the fantastic deeds of this part-hero, part-villain {General Lafayette C. Baker, Lincoln's Secret Service Chief}. Here are re-created the battlefields and the back rooms of the Civil War where Baker and his men followed thier sometimes nefarious craft, recruiting prostitutes as secret agents, exposing Confederate dummy fortifications that held back McClellan, pursuing and capturing Lincoln's would-be assassins. We see Baker as he pushed beyond the battlefield to the Treasury Department, to President Johnson's friend Lucy Cobb, to the trial of Mary Surratt's son. We learn how he devised the ingenious tactics that have become a part of today's secret service routines. We are told how history concealed Baker's deeds and how, in 1868, he died in oblivion, a victim of the fate which had befallen his Civil War enemies." -- the publishers. Seller Inventory # ABP239

Bibliographic Details

Title: Death to Traitors

Publisher: Doubleday, New York

Publication Date: 1960

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition