Unveiling Secrets: The Untold Saga of Alias Agnes, a Gilded Age Spy Who Defied All Odds
In many ways, her work resembles J. Anthony Lukas’ 1997 book Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America. Both volumes display American culture and politics at the turn of the century—Alias Agnes in the Gilded Age of the 1890s, Big Trouble in the America of 1905. Alias Agnes describes a civil trial; Big Trouble, a murder trial—the assassination of Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg. And both focus on espionage. Lukas’ book discusses private detective organizations like the Pinkertons, who worked against organized labor, and it featured a paid informant for a mine owners association.
