The Hoffa Wars: The Rise and Fall of Jimmy HoffaOpen Road Media, 03.03.2015 - 462 Seiten The definitive portrait of the powerful, corruption-ridden Teamsters union and its legendary president, Jimmy Hoffa—organizer, gangster, convict, and conspirator—with a new afterword by the author James Riddle “Jimmy” Hoffa was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in twentieth-century America. His remarkable journey from young union organizer to all-powerful head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is an epic tale worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster, jam-packed with intrigue, subterfuge, violence, and corruption. His successes were monumental, his fall truly spectacular, and his bizarre disappearance in the summer of 1975 remains one of the great mysteries in American history. Widely considered to be the definitive volume on the career and crimes of Jimmy Hoffa, The Hoffa Wars, by acclaimed investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea, is an eye-opening, extensively researched account of the steady rise and fall of an ingenious, ambitious man who was instrumental in transforming a small union of seventy-five thousand truckers into the most powerful labor brotherhood in world. Shocking disclosures in Moldea’s no-holds-barred account include the devil’s bargain that put Hoffa and his union in the pockets of the Mob, Hoffa’s role in the joint CIA-Mafia plots to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the deal Hoffa made with US president Richard Nixon that released the disgraced Teamster president from prison eight years early, and the truth behind Hoffa’s eventual disappearance and likely murder. But perhaps the most startling revelation of all concerns the integral part Jimmy Hoffa played, in concert with underworld kingpins Carlos Marcello and Santos Trafficante, in America’s most terrible twentieth-century crime: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. |
Inhalt
1900 | |
1908 | |
1909 | |
Rebel Hoffa | 1920 |
The Oppressed Become the Oppressors | |
Stacked Decks and Dirty Deals | |
The Enemy Within | |
The Making of Two Presidents and One Angel | |
The 1967 Revolt | |
Rebellion in Detroit | |
Tremors and Explosionsand a Week in the Life of a Steel Hauler | |
Averting the NorthSouth Mob | |
Free Hoffa | |
The McMaster Task Force and the Nixon Plumbers | |
Reference Notes | |
Rebel Hoffa and the 1974 Shutdown 17 The Blank Check | |
Teaming Up Against Castro | |
Coincidence or Conspiracy? | |
Mob Wars and PaperNapkin Contracts | |
PART | |
Living by the Sword 19 The Real Hoffa Legacy | |
Index | |
Acknowledgments | |
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Allen Dorfman Andretta Anthony Provenzano asked assassination associates attorney began bombing Bonanno boss Briguglio business agent called Carlos Marcello Castro charges Chicago Colson contract convicted Cuban Dave Johnson Detroit dissidents Dorfman drivers election executive board FASH federal Frank Fitzsimmons Frank Sheeran Galante Genovese Giacalone Giancana going goons hauling Hoffa Wars Ibid indicted investigation Jack Ruby jail Jimmy Hoffa John Justice Department killed knew Kusley labor later Leavitt Mafia Maheu Marcello McClellan Committee McHenry meeting membership Michigan mobsters murder negotiations Nixon O'Brien organized crime owner-operators Partin Pension Fund Presser prison Provenzano racketeers rank and file rank-and-file rebels refused Report Robert Kennedy Rolland McMaster Rosselli Ruby Russell Bufalino Salvatore Briguglio Santos Trafficante says Senate Sheeran Sheridan steel haulers talking Teamsters Union told truck truckers underworld union hall Unity Committee vice president wanted Washington William Yaras York