Jack Goldsmith
Autor(a) de Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World
About the Author
Jack Goldsmith's duty as head of the Office of Legal Counsel was to advise President Bush what he could and could not do . . . legally. After taking the job in October 2003 he found his predecessors' opinions, which were the legal framework governing the conduct of the military and intelligence mostrar mais agencies in the war on terror, to be deeply flawed. Jack Goldsmith is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University. From October 2003 to June 2004 he was Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts. mostrar menos
Obras por Jack Goldsmith
In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth (2019) 101 exemplares
The United States' Defend Forward Cyber Strategy: A Comprehensive Legal Assessment (2022) 4 exemplares
On nineteen eighty-four Orwell and our future — Editor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1962
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Ocupações
- professor (law)
- Organizações
- Harvard Law School
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Membros
- 664
- Popularidade
- #37,985
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 8
- ISBN
- 37
- Línguas
- 1
So I was easily hooked when I first heard of Goldsmith’s book. While it was evident from the lack of pre-pub headlines that there would be no big secrets revealed, I was still hopeful that there would be some pearls here and there.
There weren’t. Not for me anyway.
In essence, major chunk’s of “In Hoffa’s Shadow” focus on Chuckie O’Brien, a young guy whom Hoffa informally adopted and then recruited to serve as a sort of glorified gopher (and there are hints sans details that Chuckie also served as muscle on a few occasions.) Chuckie also married the author’s mom at one point, so he was also stepdad to the author. Chuckie and author were not always close. But the real big deal about Chuckie is that it had been long rumored that he drove Hoffa to his final meet; the FBI based their years long investigations of Chuckie on Chuckie’s role in the events of the last day.
There’s also lots of family relationship stuff, Kennedy-Hoffa hearing stuff, my “uncle” was a mobster stuff, and how Hoffa gained control of the Teamsters stuff. None of which particularly excited me. I will admit to a big aha for me though. Toward the end of the book, there is an interview/meeting of Chuckie with a States Atty. Who currently is a major contributor to a cable news channel that I watch and who does not come off so good in this book. But otherwise the “story” here didn’t thrill me. I was surprised to read other readers’ reviews commenting “couldn’t put it down”. I never had that problem. In fairness to the author though, read the “Editorial Reviews” clips on the Amazon page before deciding whether to read this. BTW, Chuckie died last month, Feb 2020, of natural causes; he was about 90.… (mais)