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The Crusades Of Cesar Chavez
Miriam Pawel
Bloomsbury Press
April 2014
On Sale: March 25, 2014
560 pages
ISBN: 1608197107
EAN: 9781608197101
Kindle: B00IE3DM6E
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Non-Fiction Biography
Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and
inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to
national icon, becoming one of the great charismatic leaders
of the 20th century. Two decades after his death, Chavez
remains the most significant Latino leader in US history.
Yet his life story has been told only in hagiography—until now. In the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam Pawel
offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal. Chavez emerges
here as a visionary figure with tragic flaws; a brilliant
strategist who sometimes stumbled; and a canny, streetwise
organizer whose pragmatism was often at odds with his
elusive, soaring dreams. He was an experimental thinker with
eclectic passions—an avid, self-educated historian and a
disciple of Gandhian non-violent protest. Drawing on
thousands of documents and scores of interviews, this
superbly written life deepens our understanding of one of
Chavez’s most salient qualities: his profound humanity. Pawel traces Chavez’s remarkable career as he conceived
strategies that empowered the poor and vanquished
California’s powerful agriculture industry, and his later
shift from inspirational leadership to a cult of
personality, with tragic consequences for the union he had
built. The Crusades of Cesar Chavez reveals how this most
unlikely American hero ignited one of the great social
movements of our time.
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