Hoffa in Tennessee: The Chattanooga Trial That Brought Down an Icon

by Maury Nicely

By the early 1960s, Jimmy Hoffa had a stranglehold on the presidency of the Teamsters Union. However, his nemesis, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, was convinced that Hoffa was a corrupt force whose heavy-handed influence over the union threatened the nation. As Attorney General, Kennedy established a "Get Hoffa Squad" that set out to unearth criminal wrongdoing by the labor leader in order to remove him from power. A number of criminal trials...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162190475X
• ISBN13: 9781621904755
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 443 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"