Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa by James Neff - ISBN: 9780316067423
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Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa

Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa

  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    12 September 2016

Summary

From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channelled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other. Kennedy’s battle with Hoffa burst into the public consciousness with the 1957 Senate Rackets Committee hearings and intensified when his brother named him attorney general. RFK put together a “Get Hoffa” squad within the Justice Department, devoted to destroying one man. But Hoffa, with nearly unlimited Teamster funds, was not about to roll over.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780316067423
ISBN-10:0316067423
Author:James Neff
Publisher:Back Bay Books
Imprint:Back Bay Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:12 September 2016
Weight:363g
Dimensions:30mm x 137mm x 206mm
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Critics Review

“Vendetta is an exciting and compelling account of the titanic struggle between Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa, one of the most extraordinary battles between the forces of good and evil in recent American history. With a master investigator’s eye and a novelist’s flair, James Neff makes the Kennedy-Hoffa duel come alive with many new historical insights and with all the blood and muscle of these two unforgettable men. If you ever wondered what it would be like to work with Robert Kennedy, the young hard-driving idealistic investigator of corruption, this book is for you.”–Thomas Maier, author of When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys “From the violence of its gripping opening to the sorrow of its close, this is an astonishing and eye-opening account of the vendetta–obsessive, intrigue-filled, hatred-tinged–that pitted Robert F. Kennedy against Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa, and nearly consumed both. Amazing stuff, really–a triumph of investigation and revelation.”–Erik Larson, author of Dead Wake “If you think you know it all, you don’t. James Neff has turned Bobby Kennedy’s headline-making clash with Jimmy Hoffa into a psychological thriller about two tough, powerful and vengeful men who fought with all they had, exhausting both. This is not a book about a good bobby versus a bad hoffa. It is a study of two men who always got what they wanted staging a shootout on the streets of Laredo. And, as Neff tells it, there were no winners.”–Seymour M. Hersh, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

About The Author

James Neff

James Neff is the author of three books and serves as chairman of Investigative Reporters & Editors, a 4,500-member nonprofit organization that provides advanced training to journalists worldwide. He lives in Seattle.

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