Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution
Description
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 Sal Si Puedes, the San Jose barrio where his career as a union organizer took off. This book is Matthiessen's panoramic yet finely detailed account of the three years he spent traveling and working with Chavez. In it, Matthiessen provides a candid look into the many sides of this enigmatic and charismatic leader who lived by the laws of nonviolence.More than thirty years later, Sal Si Puedes is less reportage than livin...
ISBN(s)
0520225848, 9780520225848
