pinkerton was the first. america's first private eye, by no means the last and we think of the pinkertons as hard men with blazing guns and big fists. remember the relentless posse of what men chasing butch and sundance. paul newman says can you do that? i can't do that. who are those guys? the guys shooting back at train robbers from inside the freight car, they are pinkertons and the guys knocking heads together at the strike, the steel mill those were pinkerton's too. sad to say, and this last thing this union busting has attached a great deal of infamy to the pinkerton name and a considerable amount of confusion about who allan pinkerton was, had a guy come up to me at the pta meeting of all things, jabs his finger into my chest and says allan pinkerton, smashed my grandfather over the head with a globe at homestead and put him in the hospital. are you going to write about that in your book? mr author? two things. one, love it when people call me mr. author. bear that in mind for later. two, the homestead

alan pinkerton of the legendary pinkerton detective agency is on the scene. he is already there in baltimore and he has just under two weeks to uncover hard evidence of this looming plot before time runs out. what makes the situation even more difficult and more dangerous is that there is no good way to get from springfield to washington at this time. america's railroads are expanding at a fantastic rate but there is no single direct railway line, no transcontinental railroad yet. the railway system in 1861 looked as if you had taken a plate of spaghetti and thrown it at a map and wherever it lands there is an independent regional railway line. in all, lincoln took a route that zigzag crisscroscrisscros s then doubled back on itself covering a distance of 2000 miles on 18 separate independent railroad lines as opposed to a journey of a few hundred miles as the crow flies. at each stop lincoln gets out of the train, gets a little speech, waves into the crowd and shakes hands. for him this is the whole point. by the time lincoln sets off for washington, seven s

pinkerton was the first. we fate of them as hard ned with blazing guns chased saying much a and sundance newman says can you do that? who are they? and inside the freight car knocking heads together those were pinkerton also sad to say tuned the union busting has a great deal of intimate with confusion of food allen pinkerton was. of guy came up to be at a pta beating and jabbed his finger into my chest and says allen pinkerton smashed my grandfather over the head with a club at homestead. and put him in the hospital. are you going to write about that in your book mr. author? [laughter] number one, i love it when people call me mr. of their. keep that in mind for later. a truly horrific episode between striking steelworkers it was a terrible bloody episode. but it's for sure allen pinkerton did not smash anyone's grandfather over the head that day. i can hear you ask how can you be so sure? he was dead. [laughter] he died eight years earlier and it has been my experience dead mend? in those schools. my point

and we learn that if a pinkerton man is deep in this business, we are all destroyed. be i'm honest -- if i'm honest, my first exposure to it was in a friend's treehouse in cleveland in 1971. there was a stack of comic books that had belonged to one of his uncles. and i actually have it with me. [laughter] and it was called true comics, and it told the story of this plot. and there it is. and it was not a great telling of story -- [laughter] there was one line, i think it went we need men such as yourself, mr. pinkerton, now that crime seems to be on the increase. [laughter] but it got the job done. and since the other reading in the treehouse that day involved the girls of the big ten -- [laughter] i think i made the right choice in terms of what to write, what to write a book about. [laughter] but to answer your question of, you know, how one picks a book topic, strange to say it can be as serendipitous as that, but you have to dig deeply enough to make sure that the bones of the story are there, that it's going to support the full telling of a story. and that's the

jim pinkerton, contributing editor at american conservative magazine, both are fox news contributors and fox news analyst, juan williams. president obama keeps complaining about fox. so why is he sitting down with o'reiley? >> howie, three words. bill o'reiley, bill o'reiley and bill o'reiley. there are other reasons, of course. how many people watch the super bowl? 108 million. >> so you're saying it's that he can't turn down o'reiley? it has nothing to do with the huge football audience? >> it's the audience and he can't turn down bill o'reiley. bill o'reiley in the last two presidential interviews gave him a really fair shot. last year, 2011, he called him a big name liberal who has intrude on your personal freedom, but he allowed the president to talk. it wasn't a hatchet job. and he's trying to reach out moderates. he has a lot of policy issues he wants to sell. if he's seen as sitting down with bill o'reiley, better chance for him. >> the president spoke with tepper this week. clearly, fox gets under his skin. why is he consorting with the likes of o'reiley? lauren seems to thi

juan williams, jim pinkerton, that's coming coming by. >>> before we go to break, if you haven't seen this, the weather channel's jam cantore was doing this and he had a vigorous response. >> we have not gotten into the worst part of this storm yet. that is to come a little bit later on tonight. so, obviously, here at the college of charleston, they're already having a good time. >> ouch. did you see that knee? don't mess with jim. next on this super bowl sunday. >>> michael strahan, the problems that he faces as an african-american xhen taim tater and working with kelly rippa. >>> michael strahan has become a big time television talent since his football days. fox sports held its media day in new york this week shortly before the cold weather super bowl in new jersey. i grabbed the big guy for an interview. >> michael strahan, welcome. >> thank you. thank you. >> when you were with the giants, you played in two super bowls. what did you make of this media zoo? >> you know, to me, it was never a zoo because you're playing in new york city. it's the media capital of the world. it was a

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the pinkertons and of course the name, if they had a nicer name pinkerton wouldn't quite be such a bad idea but we do have that and you know what? i don't want us to get over that. i don't want us to get over that. this thing exists in the attention and it's always going to be some more off or you would really like it to be. i want to turkey a couple of years ago and after i sat down with one of the turkish members of the panel they said professor and nolte clearly read lots of lott. we in turkey read hobbes. i said no, no you've got that wrong. we read locke and hobbes because madison read both and we do really try to balance these things. did we overdo it in post-9/11? yes i regret the fact that in 2011 we didn't do a tenure to not of the patriot act and the irtpa and the homeland security because they desperately needed them. we just don't work that way and we muddle along. i think we'll take two more. >> the lane with four nature education. first of all thank you very much for your presentation. it started off with a couple of points that i would like to thread back to. you were ta

the pinkertons, of course, the name. be they had a nicer name, you know, pinkerton wouldn't quite be such a bad -- but we do have that. and you know what? as an american, i don't want us to get over that. i don't want us to get over that. this thing exists, inattention, and it always is going to be somewhere off where you'd really like it to be perfectly. by -- i was in turkey a couple years ago, and after i sat down with one of the members of the panel got up and said professor nolte clearly has read lots of locke. we in turkey read hobbs. and when i had a chance to respond i said, no, no, you got that wrong. we read both locke and hobbs because madison read them both. and we do try to balance these things off. did we overdo it in post-9/11? yes. i regret the pact that this 2011 we didn't do a ten-year tune-up of the patriot act. and the irtpa and the homeland security act. because they desperately needed them. we just don't work that way. and we muddle along. yes, ma'am. i think we'll take two more, and then we'll -- >

if they had a nicer name, pinkerton would not be such a bad idea. we do have that. as un-american, i do not want us to get over that. i do not want as -- as an american, i do not want us to get over that. to get overt us that. i was in turkey a couple of years ago? one of the -- i was in turkey a couple of years ago, one said professor nolte has read a lot of locke. we read hobbes. hobbes andead both locke because madison did. we try to balance these things off. it in post 9/11? yes. i regret in 2011 we did not do a 10-year tuneup of the patriot act and the irtpa. they desperately needed them. we just do not work that way. we muddle along. i think we will take two more. thank you for the presentation. you started off with a couple of points. you are talking about america's cultural dynamic. cinema, the spies, post-wwi. then in that, how it was being presented in this genre, the multimedia, which was the media for the u.s. at the time. fast forward now to we are in everything, the whole gamut of internet, tweeting, everything. the lieutenant general made a point abou

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if they had a nicer name, pinkerton would not be such a bad idea. we do have that. as un-american, i do not want us to get over that. i do not want as -- as an american, i do not want us to get over that. to get overt us that. i was in turkey a couple of years ago? one of the -- i was in turkey a couple of years ago, one said professor nolte has read a lot of locke. we read hobbes. hobbes andead both locke because madison did. we try to balance these things off. it in post 9/11? yes. i regret in 2011 we did not do a 10-year tuneup of the patriot act and the irtpa. they desperately needed them. we just do not work that way. we muddle along. i think we will take two more. thank you for the presentation. you started off with a couple of points. you are talking about america's cultural dynamic. cinema, the spies, post-wwi. then in that, how it was being presented in this genre, the multimedia, which was the media for the u.s. at the time. fast forward now to we are in everything, the whole gamut of internet, tweeting, everything. the lieutenant general made a point abou

joining us is jim pinkerton, contributor writer for the american conservative may go zone and alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show. i'm sure your answer to that question is now. "new york times" is not doing the p.r. job of the administration. >> this wasn't an editorial by the nie"the new york times.the"" this was not a news article nor an editorial in the "new york times" so it was the opinion of one writer. i happen to agree with them. this is what obamacare was supposed to do and according to the head of the c.b.o., that's what it does. it's really a demand issue. it creates more demand as a supply changes because people are going to want to -- people who are stuck in jobs only because they're getting health care may want to retire, may want to leave to restore their own businesses and those jobs have to be filled by new workers. this is not firing a bunch of people, getting people out of the work force. it's giving people more flexibility which is exactly what the affordable care act is supposed to do. jon: i suspect you see it differently. >> they have more flexibility to work

here for that debate, contributing editor and writer, jim pinkerton, and fox news contributor and bureau chief of talk radio news service, ellen rattner. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> jim, whatever happened to campaign finance reform? i thought liberals were for it, but no. >> they were for it, tucker, until they decided they were against billionaires funding campaigns until "the washington post" said there's a big article about al gore joining other billionaires all from san francisco who are plotting, that's a fair word for it, to at least spend $100 million this year to elect green climate change activist who is think it is more important to save the penguins in 100 years from warm water than to keep americans employed in the heartland. it's a staggering situation here, not just hypocrisy, but a plot against middle america. >> ellen, take a look at this, we'll put on the screen the top five super-pacs of 2014. you'll notice something about them, they are liberal. four out of five of the top super pacs are democratic super pacs, does this surprise you?

if they had a nicer name, pinkerton would not be such a bad idea. we do have that. as un-american, i do not want us to get over that. i do not want as -- as an american, i do not want us to get over that. i do not want us to get over that. i was in turkey a couple of years ago? one said professor nolte has read a lot of locke. we read hobbes. i said we read both hobbes and locke because madison did. we try to balance these things off. did we overdo it in post 9/11? yes. i regret in 2011 we did not do a 10-year tuneup of the patriot act and the irtpa. and the homeland security act. they desperately needed them. we just do not work that way. we muddle along. i think we will take two more. >> thank you for the presentation. you started off with a couple of points. you are talking about america's cultural dynamic. early on in cinema, the spies, post-wwi. then in that, how it was being presented in this genre, the multimedia, which was the media for the u.s. at the time. fast forward now to we are in everything, the whole gamut of internet, tweeting, everything. the lieu

the plot was discovered by detective alan pinkerton. was executed in baltimore as lincoln stopped in the city on the way to washington d.c.. this is about 40 minutes. >> thank you. thank you for coming out. it is a real pleasure to be here in illinois especially because this is literally where the wheels of this story started turning both figuratively and literally. the book is the story to a large extent of allan pinkerton, famous detective of the ninete