Hoffa in Tennessee : the Chattanooga trial that brought down an icon / Maury Nicely.

First edition.

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2019]

xii, 443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Jimmy Hoffa, acquitted in a Nashville court during the Test Fleet case, was under investigation for jury tampering and subsequently tried and convicted in Chattanooga after a judge in Nashville granted a change of venue. Nicely explores Hoffa's time in Tennessee, the major players in the case, and the development of Bobby Kennedy, then chief counsel of the Senate's McClellan Committee, as Hoffa's main antagonist. All the while, Hoffa's continued legal troubles created a high amount of tension between the Teamsters, management, and members of organized crime. While many books overlook this important tipping point in Hoffa's career, tending to focus on his disappearance, Nicely mines court transcripts and presents the Tennessee trials as both the height of Hoffa's perceived invincibility and the beginning of his downfall"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online version: Nicely, Maury, author. Hoffa in Tennessee First edition. Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2019]

KF224.H6 N53 2019

English

9781621904755 hardcover
162190475X hardcover