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Hoffa the Heroic Leader The movie “Hoffa” told the story of Jimmy R. Hoffa. He is one of the greatest labor leaders in American history. In his lifetime, he accomplished great feats, and overcame many hard-ships. The movie Hoffa depicted Jimmy Hoffa as a man working for the Teamsters. He was an arduous worker and devoted himself for the better of the workers, the truck drivers, whom where being treated terribly and paid scarcely. The Teamsters was a union for these truck drivers, helping them to get better rights and more pay. Jimmy Hoffa was illustrated as a heroic leader in Hoffa. He determinedly led millions of truck drivers to better rights, no matter what Jimmy Hoffa had to do. Nevertheless, his fight was not solely for the truckers, or even teamsters, but indeed for himself to, as he told Bobby, a trucker whom he befriended, that he will become president of the teamsters, which obviously he did. His journey to presidency may seem short and simple, but in actuality, his rise to the top included many obstacles and hard-ships to overcome. All the while, as he conquered the Teamsters, slowly fighting to the top, he remained a Heroic leader, fighting for all his followers laboriously and continuously. In this paper,