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...David Horan of the M. I. T. chapter said that YAF ruled out the barricade because "it might lead to trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YAF Votes to Fight NAC Non-Violently | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

...PINKERTONS: THE DETECTIVE DYNASTY THAT MADE HISTORY by James D. Horan. 564 pages. Crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bloodhounds of Heaven | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

From Gamblers to Greenhorns. Biographer James D. Horan, a prolific ex-journalist with an omniverous curiosity about crime (The D.A.'s Man) is not quite up to turning the Pinkertons into either a study in American character or a social history of violence. But he does mount nice rogues' gallery snapshots of such Pinkerton-defying sinners as Confederate Spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow (whose charms earned her a peek at the blueprints of various forts around Washington) and "Old Bill" Miner, who held up his first stagecoach in 1866 and his last train in 1911. He also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bloodhounds of Heaven | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...RIGHT IMAGE by James D. Horan. 432 pages. Crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Jun. 16, 1967 | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

After a couple of chapters, it becomes apparent that the Shannon family is strictly fictitious and any resemblance to a real American family is coincidental - or, at any rate, deplorable. But Old Hearst Newsman Horan, who has knocked out 24 books (King's Rebel, The Great American West) since 1942, is obviously trying hard to create the impression that he is writing a roman à clef about the Kennedys. For this reason alone, his account of money as the lubricant of U.S. politics just might become the most ineptly written bestseller of the month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Jun. 16, 1967 | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

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