Sal si puedes (escape if you can) : Cesar Chavez and the new American revolution / Peter Matthissen ; with a new foreword by Marc Grossman.

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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 deta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Matthiessen, Peter (Author)
Language:English
Published: Berkeley ; Los Angeles, California : University of California Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Chavez, Cesar, > 1927-1993.
United Farm Workers > History.
Labor leaders > United States > Biography.
Mexican Americans > Biography.
Mexican American agricultural laborers > History.
Agricultural laborers > Labor unions > United States > History.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:lii, 363 pages ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
Escape if you can.
Format: Book

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