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I am a secret service agent : my life spent protecting the President / Dan Emmett, with Charles Maynard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2017]Edition: First editionDescription: 209 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250130303 (hardcover)
  • 1250130301 (hardcover)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction -- The death of a president and the birth of a career -- Preparing to serve the country -- Never quit unless you are dead -- Protection -- CAT -- From CAT to PPD -- Running with the President -- Life in the Secret Service -- I am a Secret Service agent -- The Secret Service today.
Summary: Traces the story of a Secret Service agent who protected three American presidents, describing how he pursued his job after the assassination of JFK and how he met a range of challenges throughout a career shaped by major historical events.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Biography Emmett, D. E54 Available 33111008951325
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Biography Emmett, D. E54 Available 33111008801934
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Dan Emmett was just eight years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The events surrounding the President's death shaped the course of young Emmett's life as he set a goal of becoming a US Secret Service agent--one of a special group of people willing to trade their lives for that of the President, if necessary. I Am A Secret Service Agent is the essential book on the Secret Service--with stories from some of the author's more high-profile assignments in his twenty-one years of service, where he provided protection worldwide for Presidents George Herbert Walker Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, and George W. Bush. Dan Emmett describes the professional challenges faced by Secret Service agents as well as the physical and emotional toll that can be inflicted on both agents and their families. I Am A Secret Service Agent also shares firsthand details about the duties and challenges of conducting presidential advances, dealing with the media, driving the President in a bullet-proof limousine, running alongside him through the streets of Washington, and flying with him on Air Force One. With fascinating anecdotes, Emmett weaves keen insight into the unique culture and history of the Secret Service with the inner workings of the White House.

Introduction -- The death of a president and the birth of a career -- Preparing to serve the country -- Never quit unless you are dead -- Protection -- CAT -- From CAT to PPD -- Running with the President -- Life in the Secret Service -- I am a Secret Service agent -- The Secret Service today.

Traces the story of a Secret Service agent who protected three American presidents, describing how he pursued his job after the assassination of JFK and how he met a range of challenges throughout a career shaped by major historical events.

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