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by Frank Bardacke (Author)
The first-ever comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers and its infamous leader, Cesar Chavez--"one of the most attractive and charismatic figures U.S. politics has produced" (The Guardian).
In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slogan "Yes, we can"--in the form " Sí, Se Puede!"--winning many labor victories, securing collective bargaining rights for farm workers, and becoming a major voice for the Latino community. Today, it is a mere shadow of its former self.
Author Biography
Frank Bardacke was active in the student and anti-war movements in Berkeley in the 1960s. He moved to California's Central Coast in 1970, worked for six seasons in the Salinas Valley fields, and taught at Watsonville Adult School for twenty-five years. He is the author of Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers, Good Liberals and Great Blue Herons: Land, Labor and Politics in the Pajaro Valley, and a translator of Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
