ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1960
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Andrew Tully - Treasury Agent: The Inside Story
Pyramid Books, 1960
288 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro, pečat na predlistu.

Contents:
Author Information
Acknowledgments
Foreword
This is Treasury
Hoodlums Inc
Foreign Relations
Death Is Over There
The Cheaters
Protecting The Dollar
The President
Appendix I
Appendix II
Index

A voluminous crime file about the work of the U.S.Treasury`s law enforcement agencies. An absorbing collection of true cops and robbers stories topped with a generous dollop of history and politics.

Move over, Hollywood. Several movies could be made out of this voluminous crime file about the work of the U.S.Treasury`s law enforcement agencies. From the time when the customs service was established by Alexander Hamilton in 1789, moonshiners, bootleggers, drug dealers, diamond smugglers, counterfeiters, confidence men, kidnappers, and assassins all did their best to bamboozle, bemuse, and bushwhack law enforcement agents hoping they would give up or go bungling off in the wrong direction. Be glad that Agent Mordecai Miller, a shady IRS agent, didn`t show up in your living room. Or, that your parish priest was not Father Sophrony Balaban who kicked up his heals at your daughter`s wedding and then snuck away to make hand-printed bills to finance a revolution in Yugoslavia. Yet, these crooks often underestimated the persistence and intelligence of committed Treasury agents who had long memories and stuck to the trail no matter what. With great tenacity and courage, and often following new leads years after crimes were committed, Treasury agents successfully collared and helped convict countless criminals.
Compiled by newspaperman and award winning author, Andrew Tully, Treasury Agent is a great read for anyone looking for an absorbing collection of true cops and robbers stories topped with a generous dollop of history and politics.

From the time when the customs service was established by Alexander Hamilton in 1789, moonshiners, bootleggers, drug dealers, and others did their best to evade law enforcement. Yet, these crooks often underestimated the persistence and intelligence of committed Treasury agents who had long memories and stuck to the trail no matter what. With great tenacity and courage Treasury agents successfully collared and helped convict countless criminals.

Andrew F. Tully Jr., (October 24, 1914 - Sept 27, 1993), author, columnist and war reporter was one of the first American reporters to enter conquered Berlin in April 1945.

His writing career spanned six decades and his works included several novels and popular nonfiction books on the workings of Washington, where he was a syndicated political columnist for more than 20 years. In 1962, Mr. Tully had both a novel, Capital Hill, and a nonfiction book, C.I.A.: The Inside Story, on the New York Times`s best-seller lists.

He started working for newspapers while still in high school, as a sports reporter for his hometown daily newspaper in Southbridge, Mass. At 21, he bought the town`s weekly newspaper, The Southbridge Press, for about $5,000 with loans from friends, making him the youngest newspaper publisher in America. He sold the paper two years later and became a reporter at The Worcester Gazette in Worcester, Mass., leaving there to become a correspondent in Europe for The Boston Traveller during World War II.

He began writing his own column in 1961, which came to be called Capital Fare, and was syndicated in more than 150 newspapers at its peak.

He was the author of 16 books in all, including Where Did Your Money Go? with Milton Britten, an examination of foreign aid, and Supreme Court, a novel.


Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century, Mystery & Suspense, Historical Mystery