When farm worker and labor organizer Cesar Chavez burst upon America's national scene in 1965, U.
readers and viewers were witnessing the emergence of a new Mexican American, or Chicano, movement.
This biography of Chavez by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A.
Garcia is the first to approach Chavez's life -- his courageous acts, his turning points, his many received personas -- in the context of Chicano and American history.