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2. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective &#8220Afast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.&#8221#8212ERIK LARSONA sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat&#8212atale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost MapSteven Johnson&#8217sengrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchist movement and the emerging surveillance state stretches around the world and between two centuries&#8212frm Alfred Nobel&#8217sinvention of dynamite and the assassination of Czar Alexander II to New York City in the shadow of World War I.&nbspAprl 1914. The NYPD is still largely the corrupt, low-tech organization of the Tammany Hall era. To the extent the police are stopping crime&#8212asopposed to committing it&#8212thir role has been almost entirely defined by physical force: the brawn of the cop on the beat keeping criminals at bay with nightsticks and fists. The solving of crimes is largely outside their purview.&nbspThenew commissioner, Arthur Woods, is determined to change that, but he cannot anticipate the maelstrom of violence that will soon test his science-based approach to policing. Within weeks of his tenure, New York City is engulfed in the most concentrated terrorism campaign in the nation&#8217shistory: a five-year period of relentless bombings, many of them perpetrated by the anarchist movement led by legendary radicals Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman. Coming to Woods&#8217saide are Inspector

3. Joseph Faurot, a science-first detective who works closely with him in reforming the police force, and Amadeo Polignani, the young Italian undercover detective who infiltrates the notorious Bresci Circle.&nbspJohson reveals a mostly forgotten period of political conviction, scientific discovery, assassination plots, bombings, undercover operations, and innovative sleuthing. The Infernal Machine is the complex pre-history of our current moment, when decentralized anarchist networks have once again taken to the streets to protest law enforcement abuses, right-wing militia groups have attacked government buildings, and surveillance is almost ubiquitous.

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