The Hoffa Wars: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians and The Mob by Moldea, Dan E

New York. 1978. Paddington Press. 1st Edition. Very Good In Slightly Worn Dustjacket. ISBN:0448226847. 450 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Richard Johnson. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Corruption, charisma and an insatiable craving for power — these are the keynote themes behind the rise and fall of Jimmy Hoffa, one of America’s most controversial and sinister personalities. Hoffa, long-time undisputed leader of the Teamsters, the nation’s largest and most important union, battled his way to power in a rough and bloody ascent that brought him into alliance and into combat with America’s most influential and notorious elements — politicians, labor leaders, business tycoons and the underworld. The Teamsters revered him. Labor leaders cowered before him. The mob relied on him and considered him one of their own. Richard Nixon viewed him as an essential supporter. Robert Kennedy saw him as the enemy of America. Hoffa’s disappearance on July 30, 1975 left behind a vast and brutal legacy: more than four decades of bloodshed among rival mobs struggling for control of legitimate businesses and the narcotics trade; countless battered heads and ruined lives among the Teamster rebels who dared to challenge him; and an unsavory record of huge sums of money used to buy and sell men in high political office. THE HOFFA WARS is the story of Hoffa and his domination of the Teamsters Union. It is a history of power — how Hoffa got it, kept it, lost it, and was prevented from regaining it. It is the story of wars fought by and among the Teamster leadership, and how these wars led to the murder of Jimmy Hoffa. It shows not only who killed Hoffa, but why he had to be killed. Here are chilling revelations and disclosures — names, places and details — many of them told in the words of the participants themselves, the result of unique first-hand interviews with Hoffa’s friends and enemies and government investigators all over America. A violent, bizarre and riveting story, THE HOFFA WARS is an explosive and dramatically executed masterpiece of investigative journalism that strips bare the startling reality of the personal and organizational manipulation of power in modern America’. Dan Moldea’s colleagues call him a guerilla writer. He spent four years pursuing the terrifying facts about Hoffa and those who surrounded him. He has questioned government agents, union leaders, businessmen, mobsters, and Teamsters; read voluminous documents; and tracked down every possible lead to build the true story of Hoffa’s rise and fall. Among the hundreds he interviewed were several who later became victims of the underworld’s unrelenting campaign to keep the truth about Hoffa a deep-seated secret. In the course of his work, several threats were made upon his life. Born in Ohio in 1950, Dan Moldea graduated from the University of Akron and did graduate work at Kent State University. He has worked with the National Broadcasting Company, the Detroit Free Press and Jack Anderson Enterprises. While working on THE HOFFA WARS, he received several grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Mr. Moldea now lives in Washington, D.C. inventory #22657 ISBN: 0448226847.