- Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 540 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Forging the star (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Forging the star (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-526) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Origins of a modern agency -- The thirties and forties: roots of disparate duties -- The fifties: signs of a coming era -- Walking in fire: the 1960s in America -- Catalysts of change -- Focal points -- End of an era -- The seventies: moving beyond civil disturbance -- The new director -- The resurgence of protective operations -- Facing protest and peril -- Regionalization, Patty Hearst and Guam -- An evolution of leadership -- The eighties: redefinition -- Strike teams and high-profile prisoners -- The development of a golden age -- Unique enforcement operations -- The U.S. Marshals improvement revolution -- The nineties: wanderlust -- The term of K. Michael Moore -- A dramatic era -- The busy season -- The changing landscape -- The new "marshall" -- The new century: renewal -- A boy named Elian -- The McKinney influence -- A time of terrorists -- Director Reyna and the aftermath of 911.
- LCCN
- 2016013241
- OCLC
- ssj0001703262
- Author
Turk, David S.
- Title
Forging the star [electronic resource] : the official modern history of the United States Marshals Service / David S. Turk, Historian, U.S. Marshals Service .
- Imprint
Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, 2016.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-526) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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