Marilyn June
Coffey
Marilyn June Coffey, a Nebraska native, lived for 30 years in New York City. While there, her controversial novel Marcella broke a world record for frankness and her wry poem “Pricksong” won a national prize.
Now an internationally published author, Coffey lives in Omaha with a feisty orange cat and an undisciplined garden. She writes history books. Atlantic featured her Great Plains Patchwork on its cover and again on-line. Amazon and Kindle named Coffey’s Mail-Order Kid best sellers. Amazon called her Thieves, Rascals & Sore Losers a best history book. Coffey’s latest—That Punk Jimmy Hoffa!—details her trucker father’s clash with the Teamsters.
That Punk
Jimmy Hoffa!
Coffey's Transfer at War with the Teamsters
Award-winning Great Plains writer Marilyn Coffey recounts her family's intricate dance with the Teamsters, beginning with her dad's tiny trucking company spawned on a front porch in 1929, in a David-and-Goliath encounter that spanned decades.
In 1956, Tom Coffey knuckled under Jimmy Hoffa's six-month-long Teamsters strike. He sold his twenty-seven-year-old truckline, Coffey's Transfer Company, rather than sign Hoffa's contract.
But the story didn't end there–and Hoffa didn't win after all. In 1958, the Coffey family gathered in Washington, DC, to see Tom testify against Jimmy Hoffa before then-Senator John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, the Rackets Committee's counsel who had sworn to put Hoffa behind bars.
Get the exclusive insider's perspective with Marilyn's firsthand narrative of this feud in That Punk Jimmy Hoffa!
★★★★
"This engrossing book tells the story of a family's reluctant participation
in public affairs at a national level."
Foreword clarion review
praise for
that punk jimmy hoffa!
"An impressively candid, informatively detailed, inherently fascinating insider account, That Punk Jimmy Hoffa! is a unique and extraordinary historical footnote to the history of the national teamster's union and the corruption that was to eventually take it down. Unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library collections."
Midwest Book Review
"That Punk Jimmy Hoffa! sizzles with mob energy. It's a page-turner."
Steve Fischer
Bestselling author of When the Mob Ran Vegas
Book Data
Publisher: Omega Cottonwood Press
Publication Date: May 25, 2017
Paperback: 360 pages
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9989018-1-7
Kindle ASIN: B074D7T17B
Audiobook DATA
Narrator: Karen Gundersen
Length: 9 hours, 2 minutes