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In his prime Jimmy Hoffa was one of the most influential men in the United States. From his very beginning his existence was threatened. He had a very traumatic childhood. His adult life was even more zestful than was his childhood.(Friedman 124) His sudden d ....

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.... hauled ashes and passed out leaflets for patent medicines at factory gates. He quit school at fourteen in the middle of his seventh grade year, to work full time."(133) During Hoffa's childhood he was asked to give up his boyish ways and become the man of the house. His years as a teenager were also charged with a special kind of radiant energy. At the youthful age of seventeen Hoffa was unloading boxcars at the Kroger grocery chain warehouse in Detroit for thirty-two cents an hour. It was there that he organized his first labor strike (Franco 150). It is risks like that one that led Hoffa to becoming such a powerful figure in America. Hoffa ....