When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was formed in 2002, the U.S. Secret Service was moved from the Treasury Department to DHS.
Ansley, Norman. "The United States Secret Service: An Administrative History." Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science 47 (May–Jun.1956): 93-109.
John F. Fox, Jr., "Early Days of the Intelligence Community: Bureaucratic Wrangling over Counterintelligence, 1917–18," Studies in Intelligence 49, no. 1 (2005), comments that this is "[t]he best piece on the [Secret] Service's history at this time."
Bowman,
E.U., and Leonard W. Robinson. Secret Service Chief. New York: Harper & Row, 1961.
Wilcox: "Sympathetic account of the United States Secret Service."
Bowen,
Walter S., and Harry Edward Neal. The United States Secret Service. Philadelphia: Chilton, 1960.
Harry E. Neal, The Story of the Secret Service (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971), updates Neal updated tthis anecdotal history.
Burnham,
George P. Memoirs of the United States Secret Service. Boston: Lee & Shephard, 1872. [Petersen]
Davis,
Curtis Carroll. "The Craftiest of Men: William P. Wood and the Establishment
of the United States Secret Service." Maryland Historical Magazine
83 (Summer 1988): 11-126.
Wood headed the newly formed Secret Service from 1865 to 1869.
Dorman,
Michael. The Secret Service Story. New York: Delacorte, 1967.
Petersen: "Sympathetic account."
Farago,
Ladislas. "Secrets of the Secret Service." Saturday Review
of Literature 50 (18 Nov. 1967): 31-32. [Petersen]
Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. "The Montreal Spy Ring of 1898 and the Origins of 'Domestic Surveillance' in the United States." Canadian Review of American
Studies 5 (Fall 1974): 119-134.
Petersen: "Discusses Secret Service counterintelligence operations."
Jeffreys-Jones,
Rhodri. "United States Secret Service." In Government Agencies,
ed. Donald R. Whitnah, 592-597. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1983.
Kessler, Ronald. In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect. New York: Crown, 2009.
Bamford, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2009, says that rather than using a wealth of information from scores of current and former agents "to write a serious book examining the inner workings of the long-veiled agency..., the author simply milked the agents for the juiciest gossip he could get and mixed it with a rambling list of their complaints.... [I]t is all boring and familiar," and the book is filled with "inane and endless anecdotes."
Kuhn,
Ferdinand. The Story of the Secret Service. New York: Random House, 1957.
McCarthy,
Dennis V. N., with Philip W. Smith. Protecting the President: The Inside Story of a Secret Service Agent. New York: Morrow, 1985.
McKay,
Randle, and R.J. Gerrard. The "Intelligence" Game of Secret Service Cases and Problems. New York: McBride, 1935. [Petersen]
Melanson, Philip H. The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2002. Rev. ed. 2005. [pb]
From publisher on 2005 packback edition: "This new edition of the definitive history of the Secret Service lays bare the 2004 Bush campaign's political uses of the agency and the new challenges it faces as a branch of the Homeland Security Department, in a post-9/11 world..... Melanson explores the long-hidden workings of the Secret Service since its inception in 1865 and through rigorous research and extensive interviews with former White House staffers and retired agents, uncovers startling facts about the Agency's role in such traumatic national events as the assassination of JFK and the shooting of President Reagan."
Neal,
Harry E. The Story of the Secret Service. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971.
This is an update of Walter S. Bowen and Harry Edward Neal. The United States Secret Service (Philadelphia: Chilton, 1960).
Reilly,
Michael F., and William J. Slocum. Reilly of the White House. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1947. [Petersen]
Starling,
Edward W. Starling of the White House: The Story of the Man Whose Secret Service Detail Guarded Five Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt, as Told to Thomas Shugrue. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946. [Petersen]
Tully,
Andrew. Treasury Agent: The Inside Story. New York: Pyramid Books, 1960.
U.S.
Secret Service. The United States Secret Service: What It Is, What It Does. Washington, DC: GPO, 1956.
Whitley,
Hiram C. In It: by H.C. Whitley, Late Chief of the Secret Service Division of the United States Treasury. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1894. [Petersen]
Wilkie,
Don. American Secret Service Agent. New York: Stokes, 1934. [Petersen]
Wilson,
Frank J., and Beth Day. Special Agent: A Quarter Century with the Treasury Department and the Secret Service. New York: Holt, Rinehart &Winston, 1965.
Youngblood,
Rufus W. 20 Years in the Secret Service: My Life with Five Presidents.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973.
Rufus Youngblood's obituary appears in the New York Times, 4 Oct. 1996, A13 (N).
Youngblood is best known as the Secret Service agent who used his body to shield Vice President Lyndon Johnson at the time of President Kennedy's assassination in 1963. At the time he was head of the Vice-Presidential detail. He later headed the White House detail, and ended his career in 1971 as deputy director of the Secret Service.
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