The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement

A generation of Americans came of age boycotting grapes, swept up in a movement that vanquished California's most powerful industry and won dignity and contracts for impoverished farm workers. Four decades later, United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez's 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.

Author: Miriam Pawel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 10/06/2010
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781608190997

Review Citation(s):
Books & Culture 05/01/2011 pg. 32

About the Author

Miriam Pawel is an award-winning reporter and editor who spent twenty-five years working for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She was recently an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow and a John Jacobs Fellow at the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.