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1) The Irishman
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and for his friend Hoffa. Sheeran learned to kill in the U.S. Army, where he saw an astonishing...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Language
English
Description
The Irishman is an epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th Century. Spanning decades, Sheeran's story chronicles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history, the disappearance of legendary union boss Jimmy Hoffa, and it offers a monumental...
Author
Language
English
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"One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa. From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other. Kennedy's battle with Hoffa burst into the public consciousness with the 1957 Senate Rackets Committee hearings and intensified when his brother named him...
6) Hoffa
Language
English
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Description
Traces Jimmy Hoffa's turbulent career from 1935, when he first solicits truck drivers to join the fledgling International Brotherhood of Teamsters, to his disappearance in 1975.
Author
Publisher
Borealis Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
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...
12) Hoffa
Author
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Arthur Sloane first met Jimmy Hoffa in 1962, and he has been fascinated by this powerful and contradictory figure ever since. Now, Sloane has written the only comprehensive biography of the late Teamster leader, having had full access to Hoffa's family, friends, and professional associates. "Hoffa" is a rich and colorful portrait of one of the most influential figures in American labor. It covers in considerable detail all the facets of Hoffa's remarkable...
14) Hoffa
Publisher
Wownow Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive documentary chronicles the life and disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, the mob-connected leader of the Teamsters union.
Author
Publisher
Paddington Press
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
This book is the story of Jimmy Hoffa and his domination of the Teamsters Union, the nation's largest and most important labor union. It is a history of power and the wars fought among the Teamster leadership, and how these wars led to the murder of Hoffa, the corrupt, charismatic union boss.
17) Hoffa
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Fictionalized biography of Jimmy Hoffa, tracing his career from 1935 to his mysterious disappearance in 1975.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The History detectives teams investigates four mysteries from America's past: the disappearance of labor leader Jimmy Hoff; the sinking of the steamboat Sultana in the Civil War-era South; a series of serial killings in 19th century Austin, Texas; the disappearance of bandleader Glenn Miller in 1944.
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