The Lawmen: United States Marshalls and their Deputies

The Lawmen: United States Marshals and Their Deputies, 1789-1989 Frederick S. Calhoun Smithsonian Institution Press 1989 309 pgs Frederick S. Calhoun became the first official historian for the U.S. Marshal Service in the early eighties. He attended the University of Chicago where he received his PH.D.. in American History and has previously published Power and Principle: Armed Intervention in Wilsonian Foreign Policy (1986). His purpose in writing this book was the simplest reason possible, it had …

…United States Marshals and Their Deputies, 1789-1989, by Frederick S. Calhoun was one of the best books I ever taken the time to read. As it stands in content, I believe, it is the most comprehensive and interesting history book anyone could read. I'm not stating this because I am a criminal justice major or because I am aspiring to become a Marshal but because the book was entertaining to say the least. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**