From My Brother's Shadow

Partin, Douglas Westley

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Boxes full of money in the trunk of the car, suitcases filled with fresh twenty-dollar bills, assassination plots against President John F. Kennedy and against his brother Bobby, then Attorney General of the United States, deals with the New Orleans mob, arms deals with Fidel Castro, fake passports and Mexican IDs, contracts on the lives of any who dared to oppose, violence against companies that refused to cooperate with union organizers, secret testimony against union boss Jimmy Hoffa, criminal indictments, trials, convictions and imprisonment ... these are all part of the story told by Douglas Wesley Partin, younger brother of Edward Grady Partin, ruthless boss of Teamsters Local #5 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for thirty years. Doug witnessed it all from the shadow of his older brother, and then he stepped in, succeeded his brother as principal officer of Teamsters Local #5, cleaned it up and led it for many more years. This is a story for the ages.
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Partin, Douglas Westley
Titel
From My Brother's Shadow
Uitgever
Oak of Acadiana Publications
Jaar
2012
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
292
Gewicht
318 gr
EAN
9781934769935
Afmetingen
203 x 127 x 17 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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