The Union of Their Dreams: Power Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
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A generation of Americans came of age boycotting grapes swept up in a movement that vanquished Californias most powerful industry and won dignity and contracts for impoverished farm workers. Four decades later United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavezs likeness graces postage stamps and schools and streets are renamed in his honor. But the real stories behind la causa-both its historic accomplishments and tragic disintegration-have remained buried. Pulitzer-winning journalist Miriam Pawel has changed our understanding of the UFW forever crafting a powerful poignant account of a movement and the people who made it. A tour de force of reporting and a spellbinding narrative The Union of Their Dreams is a major contribution to the history of labor civil rights and immigration in modern America.
