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| Title: | Crossing Hoffa
: A Teamster's Story |
| Author: | Steven J Harper |
| ISBN: | 0873515803 : 9780873515801 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 145x225mm |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Weight: | .478 Kg. |
| Published: | Minnesota Historical Society Press - June 2007 |
| List Price: | 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | True crime |
On a spring day in 1961, over-the-road trucker Jim Harper was en route from Mauston, Wisconsin, to his home in Minneapolis. At 70 miles per hour, with a combined 60,000 pounds of man, machine, and material, he approached a curve along the Great River Road and hit the brakes. The tractor-trailer didn't slow. Harper's brake lines had been cut. In preceding months, Harper had led an insurgency in his Teamsters' Local 544 to clean up corruption among its leaders. His efforts drew the attention of none other than Jimmy Hoffa, at the time focused on securing his right to lead the national Teamsters organisation without government intervention. Jim Harper had his reasons for confronting his local's leadership -- a hardscrabble childhood and a stint in Angola prison had left him seeking redemption, and Jimmy Hoffa had publicly called for union reform. But Hoffa, under federal investigation for questionable financial dealings, had deep, dark secrets; the last thing he needed was a spotlight on Minneapolis. Despite the increasing threats to his life and those of his young family, Harper continued to press his case. In this fascinating account, Harper's son traces the interwoven paths of these two men -- a criminal icon and a determined vigilante -- from their formative years through their unbelievable face-off.
Flashpoint; The Sins of the Father; Minneapolis Launches Hoffa's Career; Jill Harper's Story Unfolds -- and Unravels; Angola; Leaving Angola and Finding Mary; A Tangled Web; Harper Joins the Teamsters; Hoffa's Ascent -- and his Minnesota Connections; The Insurgency That Would Not Go Away; Hoffa's Biggest Minneapolis Problem; Hoffa Feels the Heat and Looks For Help; Harper Help Hoffa -- Or So He Thinks; Let the Games Begin; Nothing Worthwhile is Easy; On Top of the World; Things Fall Apart; Federal Visitors; Hoffa's Minneapolis Travails; The Audit; Hoffa visits Minneapolis, Again; Hoffa's Rules of Order; The Calm Between the Storms; Hoffa Seeks an Oval Office Ally; Threats and a Wire; Reopened Wounds Start to Bleed; Lug Nuts; A Dangerous Game; The Panel and the Charges; Another Drive Down the River Road; The Hearing; The 1961 International Convention; Harper Starts Over, Again; Hoffa's Failures; Harper's Success; Epilogue.
