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Article: Labor's love lost: A new biography paints a more sympathetic Jimmy Hoffa.(Features)(Books)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 6, 2001
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Byline: Alan Miller
Jimmy Hoffa disappeared 26 years ago - presumably murdered by the Mob - and his remains have yet to be discovered. Theories still abound as to what became of the pugnacious labor leader who rose from hardscrabble beginnings in Detroit to head the 2 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
When Hoffa was released from Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in 1972 at the behest of President Nixon, the charismatic labor boss had every intention of regaining control of the Teamsters. Two years later, he appeared in federal court to appeal the conditions of his clemency that banned him from union activities until 1980.
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