SECRET SERVICE CHIEF

by U.E. with Leonard Robinson Baughman ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 3, 1961

U.E. Baughman, the recently retired Chief of the U.S. Secret Service (he served in that top post for 13 years) tells the story of his government career, with great concentration on his experiences since 1948. A recent dynamic attempt on President Kennedy's life, prior attempts on Truman, Eisenhower, and other dignitaries' lives, counterfeiters, cranks and pranksters -- all these crowd into a book absolute, jamed with colorful, exciting, and sometime disturbing anecdotes. While explaining the work of the Secret Service in recent times, and larding the story with his own experiences and thoughts, Baughman also proves a superficial but keen observer of the personalities he encounters. The three presidents he has guarded are all characterized in small, personal ways which make them highly human. The rush, the pomp circumstance of Washington life is not overlooked either. Yet through all of it stalks the menace of the insane, the criminal, the intriguer---ready to kill high officers, to flood the U.S. with false currency, or in other ways to pit themselves against the efficient, quiet forces of the Secret Service. Very good reading.

Pub Date: Jan. 3, 1961

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1961

Categories: NONFICTION