Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
Autor(a) de A Traitor Among Us
About the Author
Obras por Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
How Kate Warne Saved President Lincoln: The Story Behind the Nation's First Woman Detective (2016) 32 exemplares
Air Shows: From Barnstormers to Blue Angels (First Books-Performances & Entertainment Series) (1998) 11 exemplares
Frontier Fever: The Silly, Superstitious-And Sometimes Sensible-Medicine of the Pioneers (1995) 10 exemplares
The Witch Who Switched 2 exemplares
Treetop Tales: Friends are LIke That 1 exemplar
Abraham Lincoln: A Prairie Life 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth
- Nome legal
- Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth Ann
- Outros nomes
- Harler, Anne
- Data de nascimento
- 1928-07-01
- Sexo
- female
- Ocupações
- author
writer
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Sonlight Books (1)
Christmas Books (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 60
- Membros
- 908
- Popularidade
- #28,241
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 23
- ISBN
- 115
- Línguas
- 1
Plot Summary:
Setting: Kate approached Allan Pinkerton, a detective in Chicago, asking to be hired. She claimed that a woman could get answers very easily because no one would suspect. She was hired and proved herself important when she quickly got a couple to admit where they were hiding their stolen money. Eventually, she was asked to work on keeping Abraham Lincoln safe as he traveled from Illinois to DC. She heard rumors of threats in Baltimore, so Kate and her boss worked together to secretly get Lincoln out of Baltimore and to DC safely. This type of work is essentially what the secret service do now.
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Recurring Themes: detective, women in the field, women at work, lying, undercover, secrets, deception
Controversial Issues: none
Personal Thoughts: The part that is super intriguing to me is that we don't actually know much about Kate as a person. She died at 38 yo, likely from pneumonia, and there isn't much real information about her. However, her role as a precursor to the secret service is fascinating and has potential to bring about interesting discussion about whether it's okay to deceive someone in order to get the truth. The writing is engaging and tells the story without speaking down to the reader. Larger vocabulary is used: obtaining, widow, society parties, assumed, befriend -- and that's just on the first few pages.
Genre: picture book biography
Pacing: fast, about 5-8 sentences per double page spread
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