TENTACLES OF POWER: The Story of Jimmy Hoffa

by Clark Mollenhoff ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 10, 1965

Reporter Mollenhoff began his investigations into labor racketeering in the midwest well over a decade ago and has since won a Pulitzer Prize for his exposure of corruption in the Teamsters' Union. His true cast of characters are all several sizes larger than life. They include crusading, millionaire boy-lawyer Robert Kennedy and his Presidential-aspirant brother John; dour and stony subcommittee chairman McClellan; roly poly bandit Dave Beck; and the most often indicted trade unionist of our time, Jimmy Hoffa. Not satisfied with the fantastic power at his disposal, or the 165-million dollar teamsters' pension fund into which he dipped at will, Jimmy also had a master plan for unionizing the country's forces under his command. Jimmy reveled in his invincibility until his arch-foe was made Attorney General in 1960 and massed the F.B.I., the I.R.S., Congress and the courts against him. The strain told on Jimmy and in 1962 he allegedly devised a plot to assassinate Bobby with a plastic bomb...This history of his reign and fall is unfailingly gripping, thorough and a heavy warning about the dangers still inherent in the outsized Teamsters' Union.

Pub Date: Nov. 10, 1965

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: World

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1965

Categories: NONFICTION