The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography

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Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to icon, becoming one of the crucial great leaders of the twentieth century. Two decades after his death, Chavez remains essentially the most significant Latino figure in U.S. history. Yet his life story has been told only in hagiography–until now.

Within the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal. Chavez emerges here as a visionary whose eyes were fixed on a horizon others regularly could not even see. He used to be a brilliant strategist who from time to time stumbled, and a streetwise organizer whose pragmatism used to be regularly at odds together with his soaring dreams. Drawing on thousands of documents, hundreds of hours of audiotape, and scores of interviews, this superbly written life deepens our figuring out of one in all Chavez’s most salient qualities: his profound humanity.

Pawel traces Chavez’s rise as he empowered the poor and disenfranchised and led farmworkers to historic victories over the agriculture industry. With compassion and compelling detail, she narrates the equally dramatic later years when Chavez’s charismatic leadership devolved into a cult of personality, with heartbreaking consequences for his union. The Crusades of Cesar Chavez reveals how this unlikely American hero ignited one of the crucial great social movements of our time–and left a legacy that resonates nowadays, from California to the White House.

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