Desperate Bargain: Why Jimmy Hoffa Had to DieThis thrilling documentary is woven from the drama surrounding the life and death of James Riddle Hoffa, one of America's most publicized - yet least known - power brokers. For the first time it is revealed how Hoffa - the late president of the Teamsters Union - was tried for murder by the Mafia when he was barely out of his teens. Here for the first time you'll read how Hoffa made a Faustian bargain with the underworld; how the bargain catapulted him to power and riches; and how, like Faust, the bargain ultimately corrupted and destroyed him. The book also reveals how the Watergate White House stole the country's biggest union; how Hoffa built the underworld's biggest bank; and how the mobs used this bank to capture Las Vegas. |
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Contents
Chapter One Desperate Bargain | 3 |
Chapter Two The Last Day | 12 |
Chapter Four Tony Jack | 26 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Desperate Bargain: Why Jimmy Hoffa Had to Die |
| Author | Lester Velie |
| Publisher | Reader's Digest Press, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 2, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0883491567, 9780883491560 |
| Length | 258 pages |
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