I heard You Paint Houses Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & The Inside Story of the Mafia, The Teamsters, & the last ride of Jimmy Hoffa

Charles Brandt

ISBN 10: 1586420771 / ISBN 13: 9781586420772

Published by Steerforth Press, 2004

About this Item

This the book the recent movie upon which the movie, "The Irishman" directed by Martin Scorsese, is based. The movie features Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano and others and was released in 2019. This is a stated "First Edition" with a black stamped front board and a black cloth covered spine and red lettering. The dust wrapper is done in red and black and is without rips or tears. There is a bit of color loss at the upper edge of the front flap fold. The back panel has a black-and-white photo of Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Jimmy Hoffa. The original price for the book remains on the upper right corner of the front flap. The book appears to have been exposed to some moisture at some point as it appears the black board covers have bled onto the verso side of the dust wrapper, a bit of color, lighter black, loss to the spine cover, a spot showing through to the front cover, there is a bit of rippling to the last approximately 40 pages of the book, and there is light toning to the edges. However, the text pages and the unpaginated pages of black-and-white photos contained in the interior of the book are clean and bright. There are 293 paginated pages including the "Resources.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: I heard You Paint Houses Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & The Inside Story of the Mafia, The Teamsters, & the last ride of Jimmy Hoffa
• Publisher: Steerforth Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1586420771
• ISBN 13: 9781586420772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • True Crime

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Synopsis

HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES is a fascinating account of a dark side of American history. The book’s title comes from the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors.

Frank Sheeran lived a long, violent, passionate life. As a boy he took on older kids in bar fights so his dad could win free beer. During World War II he was a highly decorated infantryman with 411 days of active combat duty and a willingness to follow orders. “When an officer would tell you to take a couple of German prisoners back behind the line and for you to ‘hurry back,’ you did what you had to do.” He became a hustler and hit man, working for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino and eventually becoming one of only two non-Italians on the FBI’s famous La Cosa Nostra list. He was also a truck driver who was made head of the Teamsters local in Wilmington, Delaware, by his good friend Jimmy Hoffa. When Hoffa disappeared on July 30, 1975, Sheeran became a leading suspect, and every serious study of the Hoffa disappearance alleges that Sheeran was there.

For the first time the Irishman tells all — a lifetime of payoffs (including hand-delivering bags of cash to Nixon’s attorney general John Mitchell) and manipulation (supporting Joe Biden’s election to the Senate with a Teamster action) — for the book that would become his deathbed confession. He died on December 14, 2003.

Sheeran also provides shocking new information on notorious mob hits: Joseph “Crazy Joey” Gallo — blown away as he celebrated his forty-third birthday in New York’s Little Italy; Salvatore “Sally Bugs” Briguglio — long suspected of being a player in the plot to kill Hoffa. And offers new insights to the crusading of Robert Kennedy and the death of John F. Kennedy.

This historic account is based on interviews of Frank Sheeran by Charles Brandt, who researched, cross-checked, and illuminated what Sheeran told him and turned it all into a gripping narrative that is sure to become an instant true crime classic.

About the Author

CHARLES BRANDT is a former prosecutor and Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Delaware. A past president of the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association, Brandt is also listed in Best Lawyers in America. He is a frequent speaker on cross-examination and interrogation techniques for reluctant witnesses. He lives in Lewes, Delaware, with his wife and has three grown children.