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“The Irishman is great art . . . but it is not, as we know, great history . . . Frank Sheeran . . . surely didn’t kill Hoffa . . . But who pulled the trigger? . . . For some of the real story, and for a great American tale in itself, you want to go to Jack Goldsmith’s book, In Hoffa’s Shadow.” —Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal
“In Hoffa’s Shadow is compulsively readable, deeply affecting, and actually groundbreaking in its re-examination of the Hoffa case . . . a monumental achievement.” —James Rosen, The Wall Street Journal
As a younger man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa affiliate Chuckie O’Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a profession in legislation and authorities, he got here to doubt and distance himself from the person lengthy suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa’s disappearance on behalf of the mob. It was solely years later, when Goldsmith was serving as assistant legal professional basic within the George W. Bush administration and questioning its misuse of surveillance and different powers, that he started to rethink his stepfather, and to grasp Hoffa’s true legacy.
In Hoffa’s Shadow tells the transferring story of how Goldsmith reunited with the stepfather he’d disowned after which got down to unravel one of many twentieth century’s most persistent mysteries and Chuckie’s position in it. Along the way in which, Goldsmith explores Hoffa’s rise and fall and why the golden age of blue-collar America got here to an finish, whereas additionally casting new gentle on the century-old surveillance state, the architects of Hoffa’s disappearance, and the heartrending complexities of affection and loyalty.
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