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    In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
    In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
    In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
    Audiobook12 hours

    In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth

    Written by Jack Goldsmith

    Narrated by Stephen Graybill

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    As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O’Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa’s disappearance on behalf of the mob. It was only years later, when Goldsmith was serving as assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush administration and questioning its misuse of surveillance and other powers, that he began to reconsider his stepfather, and to understand Hoffa’s true legacy.

    In Hoffa’s Shadow tells the moving story of how Goldsmith reunited with the stepfather he’d disowned and then set out to unravel one of the twentieth century’s most persistent mysteries and Chuckie’s role in it. Along the way, Goldsmith explores Hoffa’s rise and fall and why the golden age of blue-collar America came to an end, while also casting new light on the century-old surveillance state, the architects of Hoffa’s disappearance, and the heartrending complexities of love and loyalty.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateSep 24, 2019
    ISBN9781250261564
    Author

    Jack Goldsmith

    Jack Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University. From October 2003 to June 2004 he was assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

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    • 4/5
      Well worth the 12 hour listen . Part memoir, part biography, part political and cultural history. That's both its strength snd its weakness. There were times i wished the author had delved deeper into the history of unions and its demise and written more at length about state surveillance. But all in all a solid read. Particularly touching were the sections on the author's relationship to the main subject of the book.

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