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Paddington Press : distributed by Grosset & Dunlap
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1978
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1978
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1978
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English
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17268300342
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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Repaired; Laminate Moderately Peeling; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians, and the Mob. BOOK NUMBER: 22684. ALSO KNOWN AS: Portions of this book originally appeared in Playboy Magazine. DESIGNED BY: Folio Graphics Company. FRONT COVER PHOTO: Bill Ray/Black Star. REAR COVER PHOTO: Flip Schulke/Black Star. JACKET DESIGN: Richard Johnson. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction PART ONE 1 In Search of Jimmy Hoffa 2 Rebel Hoffa 3 The Oppressed Become the Oppressors 4 Stacked Decks and Dirty Deals 5 The Enemy Within 6 The Making of Two Presidents and One Angel 7 Teaming Up Against Castro 8 Coincidence or Conspiracy? 9 Mob Wars and Paper-Napkin Contracts PART TWO 10 The 1967 Revolt 11 Rebellion in Detroit 12 Tremors and Explosions--and a Week in the Life of a Steel Hauler 13 Averting the North-South Mob War 14 "Free Hoffa! " 15 The McMaster Task Force and the Nixon Plumbers 16 Rebel Hoffa and the 1974 Shutdown 17 The Blank Check 18 Living by the Sword 19 The Real Hoffa Legacy; Reference Notes; Index. SYNOPSIS: Corruption, charisma and an insatiable craving for power--these are the keynote themes behind the rise and fall of Jimmy Hoffa, one of America's most controversial and sinister personalities. Hoffa, long-time undisputed leader of the Teamsters, the nation's largest and most important union, battled his way to power in a rough and bloody ascent that brought him into alliance and into combat with America's most influential and notorious elements--politicians, labor leaders, business tycoons and the underworld. The Teamsters revered him. Labor leaders cowered before him. The mob relied on him and considered him one of their own. Richard Nixon viewed him as an essential supporter. Robert Kennedy saw him as the enemy of America. Hoffa's disappearance on July 30, 1975 left behind a vast and brutal legacy: more than four decades of bloodshed among rival mobs struggling for control of legitimate businesses and the narcotics trade; countless battered heads and ruined lives among the Teamster rebels who dared to challenge him; and an unsavory record of huge sums of money used to buy and sell men in high political office. The Hoffa Wars is the story of Hoffa and his domination of the Teamsters Union. It is a history of power--how Hoffa got it, kept it, lost it, and was prevented from regaining it. It is the story of wars fought by and among the Teamster leadership, and how these wars led to the murder of Jimmy Hoffa. It shows not only who killed Hoffa, but why he had to be killed. Here are chilling revelations and disclosures--names, places and details--many of them told in the words of the participants themselves, the result of unique first-hand interviews with Hoffa's friends and enemies and government investigators all over America. A Violent, bizarre and riveting story, The Hoffa Wars is an explosive and dramatically executed masterpiece of investigative journalism that strips bare the startling reality of the personal and organizational manipulation of power in modern America. Dan Moldea's colleagues call him a guerilla writer. He spent four years pursuing the terrifying facts about Hoffa and those who surrounded him. He has questioned government agents, union leaders, businessmen, mobsters, and Teamsters; read voluminous documents; and tracked down every possible lead to build the true story of Hoffa's rise and fall. Among the hundreds he interviewed were several who later became victims of the underworld's unrelenting campaign to keep the truth about Hoffa a deep-seated secret. In the course of his work, several threats were made upon his life. Born in Ohio in 1950, Dan Moldea graduated from the University of Akron and did...
One of the more accurate and objective accounts of this great, unselfish man and his family who contributed more to the American working class during a time that there was more resistance to the advancement of our society than ever. This is all proven by the accurate accounts of the malicious, vexatious and frivolous prosecutions and the exposure of the "Get Hoffa Squad" that was not a figment of any imagination but was a very real faction that would get any leader that was not a yes man killed one way or the other. Mr. Hoffa, his great family and unselfish contribution toward the advancement of working class America should never be forgotten and there should be a national holiday proclaimed in his memory.
God Bless his son who was fortunate to receive a legal education and Ms. Crancer who went on to the judiciary.
Anyone that stuck with him to the end and the rest of the Hoffa family who never gave up hope owes a debt to this man with courage and vision that is non existent today.
To get a good sense of where you are going it is always a good idea to reflect on your past.
This does not suggest that you should spend your life focused with your vision in the rear view mirror.
Jimmy there are so many people that need you here today.
Wherever you may rest you have raised the standard and inspired me to never give up.
I urge you to read this book and begin to understand the truth.
