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Sal si puedes (Escape if you can) : Cesar Chavez and the new American revolution / Peter Matthiessen ; with a foreword by Ilan Stavans and a postscript by the author.
- Title
- Sal si puedes (Escape if you can) : Cesar Chavez and the new American revolution / Peter Matthiessen ; with a foreword by Ilan Stavans and a postscript by the author.
- Author
- Matthiessen, Peter
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.
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- Description
- xxii, 363 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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 travelling and working with Chavez. In it, Matthiesen provides a candid look into the many sides of this enigmatic and charismatic leader who lived by the laws of nonviolence."
- "A new postscript by the author brings the reader up to date as to the events that have unfolded since the writing of Sal Si Puedes. Ilan Stavans's insightful foreword considers the significance of Chavez's legacy for our time. Besides serving as an indispensable guide to the sixties, this book rejuvenates the extraordinary vitality of Chavez's life and spirit, giving his message a renewed and much-needed urgency."--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Escape if you can
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Note
- Originally published: Sal si puedes. New York : Random House, c1969.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0520225848 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^00055580^
- OCLC
- 44467446
- SCSB-10684279
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library