Sal si puedes
✍ Scribed by Chavez, Cesar;Grossman, Marc;Matthiessen, Peter
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Year
- 2014;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Series
- Escape If You Can
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding. This book is Matthiessen's panoramic yet finely detailed account of the three years he spent working and traveling with Chavez, including to Sal Si Puedes, the San Jose barrio where Chavez began his organizing. Matthiessen provides a candid look into the many sides of this enigmatic and charismatic leader who lived by the laws of nonviolence.;Cover; Title; Copyright; Foreword; Foreword; One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Six; Seven; Eight; Nine; Ten; Eleven; Twelve; Thirteen; Epilogue; Postscript.
✦ Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Foreword
Foreword
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Epilogue
Postscript.
✦ Subjects
Agricultural laborers--Labor unions--United States--History;BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Political;BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Labor;Labor leaders--United States;Mexican American agricultural laborers--History;Mexican Americans;POLITICAL SCIENCE--Labor & Industrial Relations;Mexican American agricultural laborers;Agricultural laborers--Labor unions;Labor leaders;Biographies;Biography;Government publication;History;Electronic books;Chavez, Cesar, -- 1927-1993;United Farm Workers -- History;Labor leaders
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