Heard the author discussing the book on a podcast and thought it sounded intriguing. I knew the basics of the Hoffa story but I've never been a close follower, so much of this book was relatively new to me. Plenty of backstory on Hoffa, the Teamsters and the Mafia involvement. But the interesting pa ...more
You know, there are some crimes that just aren’t going to be solved…at least publicly. One of those is the murder of Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared one Wednesday afternoon in July, 1975. He was 62 years old and was the “retired” leader of the Teamsters Union. A few years before he had left Lewisburg P ...more
I have been a proud union member, for over 30 years and I was sixteen, when Hoffa disappeared, so I do remember that event, but I really never knew Hoffa's full story. With the film, The Irishman being recently released, along with this well-researched account, it gave me the perfect opportunity, to ...more
This is like 5 separate, good books. It’s an interesting autobiography. It’s an interesting biography of Chuckie O’Brien. It’s an interesting biography of Jimmy Hoffa. And is both an interesting history/mystery book and an interesting layman’s legal text.
In July 1975 Jimmy Hoffa, one of the most powerful labor leaders in our history disappeared. Jack Goldsmith is the adopted son of a key figure in the case, Charles "Chuckie" O'Brien who was Hoffa's gopher and almost an adopted son.
Goldsmith had two other fathers - his mother married a doctor after s ...more
Though Goldsmith doesn't say so explicitly, I couldn't help but think after finishing his book that it would not be a stretch to conclude that RFK, in his obsessive crusade against Hoffa, did more damage to the country's principles of rule of law than the Teamsters' leader ever did in funding mob re ...more
Really good book about the details of Hoffa’s right hand man Chuckie O Brien. Trying to solve the mystery of Hoffa’s disappearance and recounting the details of the Teamsters and the Mob. Really enjoyed it. 4.5 stars! ...more
This was an unexpected thriller. I got the book because the author, Jack Goldsmith, was one of the professors I was closest with in law school. It turns out that his step-father is the lead suspect in the Hoffa disappearance. Goldsmith wrote the book because he studied the evidence, interviewed witn ...more
Such an interesting profile of a part of American history I knew fairly little about (mid 20th century FBI / the Mob / the Teamsters.) Exceeded expectations! Thanks for the rec Tamar ...more