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Battle for redemption; Local attorney uncovers his father's dark secret and the reason he took on Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa
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Chicago Sun-Times
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July 22, 2007
- Author:
- Joe Kolina
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BIOGRAPHY
CROSSING HOFFA
A TEAMSTER'S STORY
By Steven Harper
Borealis
Books, 218 pages,
$24.95
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On a quiet, bittersweet day not long before the end, Steven
Harper sat with his dying father, his heart filled with love.
James Harper lay in the mechanical bed his family had wheeled
into the living room of his house to make him more comfortable.
Father and son, his first born, spoke of many things, final things.
"Suddenly, it just shot out," Harper says. "My father told me he
thought he hadn't done anything right in his life."
Steven was about to find out how wrong his father was. After his
death, he opened the metal box his father kept locked. Inside, among
the prosaic ...
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603 words
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Anonymous;
628 words
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623 words
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