Mobbed Up (ePub)
Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the FBI
(Sprache: Englisch)
The spellbinding saga of Teamster boss Jackie Presser's rise and fall
In his rise from car thief to president of America's largest labor union, Jackie Presser used every ounce of his street smarts and rough-edged charisma to get ahead. He also had a lot...
In his rise from car thief to president of America's largest labor union, Jackie Presser used every ounce of his street smarts and rough-edged charisma to get ahead. He also had a lot...
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The spellbinding saga of Teamster boss Jackie Presser's rise and fall
In his rise from car thief to president of America's largest labor union, Jackie Presser used every ounce of his street smarts and rough-edged charisma to get ahead. He also had a lot of help along the way-not just from his father, Bill Presser, a Teamster power broker and thrice-convicted labor racketeer, but also from the Mob and the FBI. At the same time that he was taking orders from the Cleveland Mafia and New York crime boss Fat Tony Salerno, Presser was serving as the FBI's top informant on organized crime.
Meticulously researched and dramatically told, Mobbed Up is the story of Presser's precarious balancing act with the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the Justice Department. Drawing on thousands of pages of classified files, James Neff follows the trail of greed, corruption, and hubris all the way to the Nixon and Reagan White Houses, where Bill and Jackie Presser were treated as valued friends. Winner of an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award for best reporting on organized crime, it is a tale too astonishing to be made up-and too troubling to be ignored.
In his rise from car thief to president of America's largest labor union, Jackie Presser used every ounce of his street smarts and rough-edged charisma to get ahead. He also had a lot of help along the way-not just from his father, Bill Presser, a Teamster power broker and thrice-convicted labor racketeer, but also from the Mob and the FBI. At the same time that he was taking orders from the Cleveland Mafia and New York crime boss Fat Tony Salerno, Presser was serving as the FBI's top informant on organized crime.
Meticulously researched and dramatically told, Mobbed Up is the story of Presser's precarious balancing act with the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the Justice Department. Drawing on thousands of pages of classified files, James Neff follows the trail of greed, corruption, and hubris all the way to the Nixon and Reagan White Houses, where Bill and Jackie Presser were treated as valued friends. Winner of an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award for best reporting on organized crime, it is a tale too astonishing to be made up-and too troubling to be ignored.
Autoren-Porträt von James Neff
James Neff is a prizewinning investigative journalist and editor. He is the author of five books, including The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case and Unfinished Murder: The Capture of a Serial Rapist, both of which were Edgar Award finalists; Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the FBI, which was adapted into the HBO movie Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story; and Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa. Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Neff was a reporter and columnist at the Plain Dealer; a writer and editor at the Seattle Times, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and is currently deputy managing editor for investigations at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James Neff
- 2015, 505 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1504007352
- ISBN-13: 9781504007351
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.04.2015
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“Excellent reporting.” —Jimmy Breslin“A damning tale . . . A portrait of pervasive corruption that should concern anyone who cares about how this country works.” —Los Angeles Times
“Mr. Neff’s story has the pace and Byzantine plotting of a John le Carré novel.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Disturbing . . . [an] engrossing book.” —The New York Times
“An intriguing thriller.” —The Detroit News
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