Crossing Hoffa: A Teamster's Story

by Steven J. Harper

Book Overview

On a spring day in 1961, over-the-road trucker Jim Harper was en route from Mauston, Wisconsin, to his home in Minneapolis. At 70 miles per hour, with a combined 60,000 pounds of man, machine, and material, he approached a curve along the Great River Road and hit the brakes. The tractor-trailer didn't slow. Harper's brake lines had been cut. In preceding months, Harper had led an insurgency in his Teamsters' Local 544 to clean up corruption among...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873515803
• ISBN13: 9780873515801
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Borealis Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 8.8"