Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can)
Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution
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. Sal Si Puedes is less reportage than living history. In…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-95836-4
- EAN: 9780520958364
- Produktnummer: 21596379
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 402 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'773 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014) was a winner of the National Book Award and the American Book Award, and was the author of over thirty books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Snow Leopard (1978), At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965), Far Tortuga (1975), In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1992), and Bone by Bone (1999). Chavez's longtime spokesman and personal aide Marc Grossman is Communications Director for the Cesar Chavez Foundation.
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