Hoffa

By Arthur A. Sloane

Book Overview

In Hoffa Arthur Sloane presents a comprehensive biography of the late Teamster leader, having had full access to Jimmy Hoffa's family, friends and professional associates. Hoffa is a colourful portrait of this powerful and contradictory character, one of the most influential figures in American labour. It covers all the facets of Hoffa's remarkable life and death - his rise to total dominance over the largest, strongest and wealthiest union in American history, his near-Victorian personal habits, the legal problems that plagued his later years, and the shadowy events surrounding his presumed Mafia murder in 1975.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262691566
• ISBN13: 9780262691567
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A must for Union organizers

Sloane takes us on a journey through Hoffa's life. From his early childhood, to the end. Sloane spends time on Hoffa's relationship with Ferral Dobbs and the tactics and strategies that he learned in Minneapolis that Made Hoffa one of the most effective Union organizers of all time. This book literally cuts through the crap and vilification and shows Hoffa the man, the Union organizer, and the Union leader. A must read