Daniel Stashower's new nonfiction book, Hour of Peril, tells the harrowing tale of how Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, saved Abraham Lincoln from assassination in 1861. Pinkerton and his associate, female detective Kate Warne, foiled a well-planned plot to assassinate Lincoln as he made his way to the Capitol for the inauguration. Allan Pinkerton's abolitionist sympathies were well-known at the time, and Lincoln no doubt considered him an honorable man who was perfectly suited to the role of personal protector.
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