Jimmy Hoffa: The Controversial Life and Disappearance of the Godfather of the Teamsters

*Includes pictures *Includes Hoffa's own quotes about his life and career *Profiles the various conspiracy theories surrounding Hoffa's disappearance *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading “I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.” - Jimmy Hoffa "’He's not just the most powerful man in labor,’ Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; ‘he's the most powerful man in the country, next to the President.’" – Arthur A. Sloane, Hoffa A century ago, if one were to come across a manual laborer from the early 20th century or the Roaring Twenties and relayed to them the possibility of one day sticking it to The Man, one would probably be laughed out of the century. However, this was exactly what one man with solid-gold aspirations and audacity set out to achieve. Jimmy Hoffa, once described by Bobby Kennedy as the second most powerful man in America, was a union boss who e