Peter MATTHIESSEN
Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution
Paperback
((Dell)/Delta March 15, 1971)
, 1st edition
SECOND PRINTING. 1969 Delta/Dell trade paperback, Peter Matthiessen (The Tree Where Man Was Born). 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. - Amazon
- Weight
- 12.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.1 x 5.4
in.