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Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a book based on newly released documents, the author sheds a new light on the historic battle between U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa during the Senate Rackets Committee hearings and beyond during 1957 to 1964.
Author
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Language
English
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Description
Provides an account of the life and activities of late Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran, based on taped interviews with Sheeran, one of only two non-Italians to appear on the FBI's La Cosa Nostra list, discussing his childhood, World War II service, and work as a hustler, hitman, and head of the Teamsters local in Wilmington, Delaware.
""I Heard You Paint Houses" is an account of a dark side of American history. The book's title comes from the first...
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Bitter trail: During the Civil War, teamster Frio Wheeler's wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico, and the proceeds are used to purchase supplies for the Confederate Army. But on one drive, Wheeler is kidnapped by dangerous bandits abetting Union Sympathizers.
Barbed wire: When a ruthless cattle baron and his men destroy Doug Monahan's property, his old friend and mentor is gunned down. Pistol whipped and now flat broke, Monahan finds refuge on...
7) Hoffa
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The story of the legendary Teamster Boss whose mysterious disappearance has never been explained. The film traces Hoffa's passionate struggle to shape the nation's most influential labor union, his relationship with the Mob and his prison term.
8) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie OBrien. 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 Hoffas 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...
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