The Trials of Jimmy Hoffa: An Autobiography.

Jimmy Hoffa was the most powerful and most controversial labor leader in American history, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters who built it into the largest union in the country and made himself a household name. The Trials of Jimmy Hoffa, published in 1970 while its author sat in the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, is his own combative account of the courtroom battles that brought him down, above all his long and bitter feud with Robert F. Kennedy, who pursued him first as counsel to the McClellan Committee and later as Attorney General through a task force the press dubbed the “Get Hoffa Squad.” Convicted of jury tampering and pension-fund fraud in 1964, Hoffa was imprisoned in 1967 and released in 1971 when President Nixon commuted his sentence on the condition that he stay out of union affairs. On July 30, 1975, Hoffa vanished from the parking lot of a suburban Detroit restaurant and was never seen again. His presumed murder and the fate of his body remain among the most famous unsolved mysteries in America. His life has since been dramatized on screen by Jack Nicholson in Danny DeVito’s Hoffa (1992) and by Al Pacino, in an Academy Award-nominated performance, in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman (2019).