{"id":9675,"date":"2024-05-18T17:26:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T22:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9675"},"modified":"2024-05-18T23:55:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T04:55:20","slug":"9675","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9675","title":{"rendered":"IN HOFFA&#8217;S SHADOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In Hoffa&#039;s Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B07PNXC7WD\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In Hoffa\u2019s Shadow<\/em> details the riveting story of Jimmy Hoffa\u2019s mysterious disappearance. It is amply supplied with roller-coaster drama and elegant writing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The author is the stepson of Charles \u201cChuckie\u201d O\u2019Brien, the loyal and longtime assistant to Jimmy Hoffa. (I should add that the author is a professor at Harvard law school and a wonderful mentor to our youngest son.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I well remember the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. My young assessment was that his Teamster job was really a front to make lots of money from his mobster connections. The reality, like many true things, is more complicated and compelling than the simple narrative I believed in high school.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goldsmith artfully tells the story of his stepfather\u2019s quest to gain his innocence. I am convinced that Chuckie had nothing to do with the disappearance and death of Hoffa. The story is told with judicious detail and an appropriate pathos that one would expect from a loving stepson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But don\u2019t be mistaken. This is not a hagiographical account. Goldsmith is quick to admit the many faults and foibles of his stepfather. Perhaps you noticed that Goldsmith did not keep his stepfather\u2019s surname. I won\u2019t go into why, but it underscores that this book is not some cheap, laudatory account. On the other end of the spectrum, it is equally not remotely in the <em>Mommie Dearest<\/em> genre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are looking for an engaging book full of twists and turns, I highly recommend <em>In Hoffa\u2019s Shadow<\/em>. I should add the subtitle: <em>A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Hoffa\u2019s Shadow details the riveting story of Jimmy Hoffa\u2019s mysterious disappearance. It is amply supplied with roller-coaster drama and elegant writing. The author is the stepson of Charles \u201cChuckie\u201d O\u2019Brien, the loyal and longtime assistant to Jimmy Hoffa. (I should add that the author is a professor at Harvard law school and a wonderful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,13,122,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-book-review","category-cities","category-controversy","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9675"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9681,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675\/revisions\/9681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}