The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement

Ferriss, Susan, and Sandoval, Ricardo, and Hembree, Diana (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0151002398 / ISBN 13: 9780151002399

Published by Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997

About this Item

xvi, 330 p. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Index. Foreword by Gary Soto. The companion volume to a 1997 PBS documentary, and a prime example of its genre. With veteran journalists Susan Ferriss ("San Francisco Examiner") and Ricardo Sandoval ("San Jose Mercury News") providing an exposition of the historical narrative, this account is filled out with first-person anecdotes and eyewitness accounts, news clips, photographs, and even letters home from migrant workers in a manner that successfully evokes the spirit, texture, and feel of the political and social context. The resulting pastiche provides a general-interest overview of the struggle to organize the nation's agricultural workers from the founding of the United Farm Workers in 1962 through Chavez's death in 1993. Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. Paperclip impression on a couple of pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Hinges somewhat sprung. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace and Company
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151002398
• ISBN 13: 9780151002399
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Soto, Gary
• Edition: 1st Edition
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Synopsis

The illustrated companion book to the PBS documentary of the same name tells the story of the late leader of America's migrant farmworkers and the United Farm Workers Union, and their battle against the giant agribusinesses. TV tie-in.