Blood Feud

by Edward Hannibal

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345281004
• ISBN13: 9780345281005
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

BOBBY vs. JIMMY

This book will certainly arouse the team spirit in all who read it.The Players:Jimmy Hoffa, Teamster and MafiosoRobert Kennedy, young attorney and future Attorney General & SenatorThe arena: their respective work places and courtJimmy Hoffa, a notorious teamster scores one point early in the book. The author provides information about the man's background, all but complimenting him on becoming a self made man with requisite leadership abilities. Hoffa is clearly intelligent, but he is also underhanded and wily.Enter Robert Kennedy. A hard working, driven man who will stop at NOTHING to see Hoffa indicted. He feels Hoffa is the living definition of evil and that organized crime is social malignancy. He moves in on Hoffa with the skill and precision of a fencer, waiting to make that final jab. He scores points in the courtroom interrogating Hoffa, et al. and incurs the wrath of the mafia.The heat is on...the tension is felt on both sides. Spectators are, thanks to the sympathies portrayed by the author, rooting for...Robert Kennedy! One cheers his harsh questioning of Hoffa and other mafiosi; one smiles at how he and Hoffa feuded over picayune things such as who left the lights on in their offices longer. Both men engaged in spitting matches such as this. The spitting matches escalated as the "blood feud" between the Teamster/mafioso and the attorney became more public.I rooted for Robert Kennedy.

A good book for history buffs

I found the book to be a good read on the subject of the Kennedy-Hoffa feud. I noticed that towards the beginning of the novel, the author tried to portray Hoffa in a, not favorable, but sympathetic light. But towards the end Robert Kennedy was clearly the one the readers are to root for. Many of Kennedy's famous quotes can be found through out the dialog. All in all, a good way to spend an afternoon.