Hoffa: The Real Story by James R. HoffaMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
During the last several months I have read Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa and The Hoffa wars: Teamsters, rebels, politicians, and the mob, so it feels good and right to complete this trifecta with Hoffa's own words. Also, one could say, final words as this book was complete just before his disappearance and released after that by his family with an afterword by transcriber Oscar Fraley and an affidavit from the family attesting to the veracity of this opus as Hoffa's own views. Hoffa's bias is not very confessional, but he certainly declaims that Robert F. Kennedy had it out for him and that the real rat in the Teamsters was his replacement Frank Fitzsimmons. During the book he lauds his ersatz foster son Chuck O'Brien was involved in the disappearance. Investigators and Hoffa's relatives have long suspected that Charles "Chuckie" O'Brien was involved in the disappearance. Here the aftermatter takes care to take O'Brien a few notches from Hoffa's esteem.
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