Cesar Chavez: A Biography

by Roger A. Bruns

Book Overview

Cesar Chavez, the labor organizer and founder of the United Farm Workers of America, was, perhaps, an unlikely hero. In this biography, his early life is shown to be fairly typical for a boy in a close-knit family of Mexican Americans who worked the land in Arizona and California and endured hardship and discrimination. His story reveals the underside of the American Dream, and his later successes in helping farm workers and building a union to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313334528
• ISBN13: 9780313334528
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"