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The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
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A fastburning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.ERIK LARSONA sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threata tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost MapSteven Johnsons engrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchist movement and the emerging surveillance state stretches around the world and between two centuriesfrom Alfred Nobels invention of dynamite and the assassination of Czar Alexander II to New York City in the shadow of World War I.April 1914. The NYPD is still largely the corrupt, lowtech organization of the Tammany Hall era. To the extent the police are stopping crimeas opposed to committing ittheir role has been almost entirely defined by physical force: the brawn of the cop on the beat keeping criminals at bay with nightsticks and fists. The solving of crimes is largely outside their purview.The new commissioner, Arthur Woods, is determined to change that, but he cannot anticipate the maelstrom of violence that will soon test his sciencebased approach to policing. Within weeks of his tenure, New York City is engulfed in the most concentrated terrorism campaign in the nations history: a fiveyear period of relentless bombings, many of them perpetrated by the anarchist movement led by legendary radicals Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman. Coming to Woodss aide are Inspector Joseph Faurot, a sciencefirst detective who works closely with him in reforming the police force, and Amadeo Polignani, the young Italian undercover detective who infiltrates the notorious Bresci Circle.Johnson reveals a mostly forgotten period of political conviction, scientific discovery, assassination plots, bombings, undercover operations, and innovative sleuthing. The Infernal Machine is the complex prehistory of our current moment, when decentralized anarchist networks have once again taken to the streets to protest law enforcement abuses, rightwing militia groups have attacked government buildings, and surveillance is almost ubiquitous.
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