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Sto caricando le informazioni... In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truthdi Jack Goldsmith
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 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 learn about this powerful union leader and what led up to his demise. What also makes, this book special is that the author, a prominent lawyer and former government official, has a strong connection to this story. His step-father, Chuckie O' Neal, was Hoffa's right hand man for many years and was also arrested for his suspected involvement with Hoffa's disappearance, which destroyed Chuckie's life, despite his likely, innocence. The author packs a lot into this book, and we get historical snapshots, of the FBI, Hoover, RFK, the teamsters, the mob and the sinister world of surveillance. Solid nonfiction. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O'Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa's disappearance on behalf of the mob. It was only years later, when Goldsmith was serving as assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush administration and questioning its misuse of surveillance and other powers, that he began to reconsider his stepfather, and to understand Hoffa's true legacy. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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So I was easily hooked when I first heard of Goldsmith’s book. While it was evident from the lack of pre-pub headlines that there would be no big secrets revealed, I was still hopeful that there would be some pearls here and there.
There weren’t. Not for me anyway.
In essence, major chunk’s of “In Hoffa’s Shadow” focus on Chuckie O’Brien, a young guy whom Hoffa informally adopted and then recruited to serve as a sort of glorified gopher (and there are hints sans details that Chuckie also served as muscle on a few occasions.) Chuckie also married the author’s mom at one point, so he was also stepdad to the author. Chuckie and author were not always close. But the real big deal about Chuckie is that it had been long rumored that he drove Hoffa to his final meet; the FBI based their years long investigations of Chuckie on Chuckie’s role in the events of the last day.
There’s also lots of family relationship stuff, Kennedy-Hoffa hearing stuff, my “uncle” was a mobster stuff, and how Hoffa gained control of the Teamsters stuff. None of which particularly excited me. I will admit to a big aha for me though. Toward the end of the book, there is an interview/meeting of Chuckie with a States Atty. Who currently is a major contributor to a cable news channel that I watch and who does not come off so good in this book. But otherwise the “story” here didn’t thrill me. I was surprised to read other readers’ reviews commenting “couldn’t put it down”. I never had that problem. In fairness to the author though, read the “Editorial Reviews” clips on the Amazon page before deciding whether to read this. BTW, Chuckie died last month, Feb 2020, of natural causes; he was about 90. ( )