Miriam Pawel: 3 books

Book cover of The Union of Their Dreams

The Union of Their Dreams

Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement

by Miriam Pawel
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009

A generation of Americans came of age boycotting grapes, swept up in a movement that vanquished California's most powerful industry and accomplished the unthinkable: dignity and contracts for farm workers. Four decades later, Cesar Chavez's likeness graces postage stamps, and dozens of schools and...
Book cover of The Browns of California

The Browns of California

The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation

by Miriam Pawel
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018

"Miriam Pawel's fascinating book . . . illuminates the sea change in the nation's politics in the last half of the 20th century."--New York Times Book Review California Book Award Gold Medal Winner * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A Los Angeles Times Bestseller * San Francisco...
Book cover of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez
by Miriam Pawel
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the California Book Award A searching portrait of an iconic figure long shrouded in myth by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of an acclaimed history of Chavez's movement. Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched...
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