In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time.
Matthiessen provides a candid look int.
This book is Matthiessen\'s panoramic yet finely detailed account of the three years he spent working and traveling with Chavez, including to Sal Si Puedes, the San Jose barrio where Chavez began his organizing.
Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding.
They were the same age: forty-one.
In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time