![]() Pawel recounts Chavez’s well-known upbringing in Arizona’s Gila Valley as well as his family’s migration to California and eventual settlement in Delano. Ultimately, Pawel argues that the legacy of Chavez’s life and work “would not be in the fields, but in the rise of his people” (3). Exploring Chavez’s triumphs and faults from his childhood during the 1930s to his rise as a national icon from the 1960s onward, the author attempts to reconstruct the complex “mosaic of Cesar Chavez” (3). Instead, the value of this book lies in its immense detail and readability. Pawel’s latest text does not bring to light a Chavez unknown to readers. ![]() In The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, Miriam Pawel, a journalist who has turned to writing books based upon archival research, continues the revisionist literature on Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers (UFW) that she helped initiate with her first book, The Union of Their Dreams (Bloomsbury Press, 2009), and which historian Matt Garcia further contributed to with From the Jaws of Victory (University of California Press, 2012). ![]()
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