Matthiessen, Peter, Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution Sal Si Puedes is less

Sal Si Puedes is less reportage than living history

In its pages a whole era comes alive: the Chicano

Chavez’s fasts

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Matthiessen, Peter, Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution Sal Si Puedes is lessIn the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding. This book is Matthiessens 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