Charles Lane

Freedom's Detective tells the untold story of the Reconstruction-era United States Secret Service and their battle against the Ku Klux Klan, through the career of its controversial chief, Hiram C. Whitley In the years following the Civil War, a new battle began. Newly freed African American men had gained their voting rights and would soon have a chance to transform Southern politics. Former Confederates and other white supremacists, realizing the threat to their status, mobilized to stop them. Thus, the KKK was born. After the first political assassination carried out by the Klan, Washington power brokers looked for help in breaking the growing movement. They found it in Hiram C. Whitley. He became head of the Secret Service, which had previously focused on catching counterfeiters and was at the time the government's only intelligence organization. Whitley and his agents led the covert war against the nascent KKK and were the first to use undercover work in mass crime--what we now call terrorism--investigations. Like many spymasters before and since, Whitley also had a dark side. His penchant for skulduggery and dirty tricks ultimately led to his involvement in a conspiracy that would bring an end to his career and transform the Secret Service. Populated by intriguing historical characters--from President Grant to brave Southerners, both black and white, who stood up to the Klan--and told in a brisk narrative style, Freedom's Detective reveals the story of this complex hero and his central role in this long-lost chapter of American history.

The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror

Freedom's Detective

Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where Negroes and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex-Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed moret

The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

The Day Freedom Died

Day Freedom Died, The

The whole of the burmese portion carefully revised by his highness the prince of Mekhara, uncle to the then reigning King of Burmah

A dictionary, english and burmese; by Charles Lane

"Published in cooperation with Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California."--T.p.

Saving the Death Penalty from Itself

Stay of Execution

John Emms

British Sporting Art Trust

Friends of British Sporting Art

John Emms, 1843-1912

Amos Bronson Alcott

Ce n'est pas un hasard si le livre le plus marquant de H. D. Thoreau, Walden, est sous-titré "La vie dans les bois". Il rendait ainsi un discret hommage à son ami Charles Lane qui venait de publier un essai sous ce titre. Dans ce texte, Lane prône un retour à une vie naturelle et n'hésite pas à opposer la sagesse des Indiens, en harmonie avec leur environnement, à la cupidité et la folie des hommes civilisés. Mais son ambition est plus vaste, il cherche à montrer, à travers.le récit de ses expériences au sein de fermes communautaires fouriéristes, que l'on peut vivre autrement, en respectant la nature, en mutualisant le travail et en n'ayant de cesse de s'instruire.

La vie dans les bois

Charles Lane

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