“A Time to Choose,” here
Reavis & McGrath, here
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Reinhardt, Stephen, here, here, here
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Ribicoff, Abraham, here
Rice, Baxter, here, here
Rice, George A. III (Jeep), here, here, here, here
Rice, Hilary, here
Rice, Kathleen Brown. See Brown, Kathleen (Kathy) (later Rice, then Sauter)
Richard, Dan, here, here
Richards, Ann, here
Rickover, Hyman, here
Rilke, Rainer Maria, here
Ring, Harold, Fr., here
Roberts, Ed, here
Robie, Ron, here, here, here
Roche, Julia (later Cuneo), here
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., here
Rockefeller, Nelson, here
Roddy, Pete, here, here, here, here, here, here
Rodriguez, Alphonsus, here
Rogers, Justus, here
Rolling Stone, here, here, here
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Ronstadt, Linda, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Roosevelt, Eleanor, here
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Roosevelt, Jimmy, here
Roosevelt, Theodore, here, here, here
Roseen, Mary, here
Rosenback, Gertrude Schuckman, here
Rotunda building, here, here
Royce, Josiah, here, here, here
Royko, Mike, here
Rumford, William Byron, here
Rumford Fair Housing Act, here, here, here, here, here
Rumsfeld, Donald, here
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Russian River, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
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Rustin, Bayard, here
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Sacred Heart Novitiate, Los Gatos, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Safer, Morley, here
Sagan, Carl, here
Salazar, Ruben, here
Salinger, Pierre, here
Salzman, Ed, here
San Fernando Valley, here, here, here, here
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San Luis Reservoir, here
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Santa Clara University, here, here, here
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Sauter, Kathleen Brown Rice. See Brown, Kathleen (Kathy) (later Rice, then Sauter)
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Sawyer, Robert, here
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Schaad, Patricia, here, here, here
Schiller, Arnold, here, here
Schmidt, Eric, here
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Schorer, Mark, here
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Schuckman, Minnie, here, here
Schuckman, Udo, here
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St. Brendan’s Church, here, here
St. Cecilia’s Church, here
Stegner, Wallace, here, here, here
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Unitarian Church, here, here, here
United Farm Workers (UFW), here, here, here, here, here, here, here
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charter, here
demographics, here, here, here, here
First Gen campaign, here
funding, here, here
Jerry Brown and, here
leadership, here, here, here
loyalty oath, here
Master Plan, here, here, here, here, here
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rivalries, here
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Free Speech Movement, here, here
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University of California, Santa Cruz, here
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Vidal, Gore, here
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Villa Joseph, here, here
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Wald, Jeff, here
Waldie, Jerome, here
Wallichs Music City, here
Warhol, Andy, here
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Warren, Earl
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Bohemian Club, here
district attorney, here
friendships, here
governor, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
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mentioned, here, here, here, here
Pat and, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
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Warren, Nina, here
Watergate, here, here, here, here
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Waxman, Henry, here
Weil, Simon, here
Weinberg, Jack, here
Weinberger, Caspar, here
Wenke, Robert, here
Werner, Llew, here
Whitaker & Baxter, here
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Williams, W. H., here
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Wolin, Sheldon, here, here, here, here, here, here
Wonderland Park, here
World’s Fair (Panama–Pacific International Exposition), here, here, here
World War I, here
World War II, here, here
Wozniak, Steve, here
Xi Jinping, here
Yale, here, here, here, here
Yanarella, Ernest J., here
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, here
Yorkshire Grill, here
Yorty, Sam, here, here, here
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A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Miriam Pawel is an independent scholar, a journalist, and the author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and California Book Award winner, and The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement. She has received several fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was a Pulitzer Prize–winning editor at Newsday and the Los Angeles Times and is a contributor to the Los Angeles Times op-ed section and Zócalo Public Square. She lives in Southern California.
Also Available from Miriam Pawel
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez:
A Biography
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
In the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, the most significant Latino figure in U.S. history, Miriam Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal. Chavez emerges here as a visionary whose eyes were fixed on a horizon others often could not even see. He was a brilliant strategist who sometimes stumbled, and a streetwise organizer whose pragmatism was often at odds with his soaring dreams. Drawing on thousands of documents, hundreds of hours of audiotape, and scores of interviews, this superbly written life deepens our understanding of one of Chavez’s most salient qualities: his profound humanity.
With compassion and compelling detail, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez reveals how this unlikely American hero ignited one of the great social movements of our time—and left a legacy that resonates today, from California to the White House.
“The Crusades of Cesar Chavez is a biography for readers who find real human beings more compelling than icons.” —Los Angeles Times
“Miriam Pawel’s magnificent biography of Cesar Chavez has the force and scope of a great American novel. Here is the story of a man, from the humblest beginnings, who became a labor organizer as famous as any; here is a deeply flawed man who yearned to be a saint.” —Richard Rodriguez, author of Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography and Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
The Union of Their Dreams:
Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement
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 streets have been renamed in his honor. But the real story of Chavez’s farm workers’ movement—both its historic triumphs and its tragic disintegration—has remained buried beneath the hagiography.
Drawing on a rich trove of original documents, tapes, and interviews, The Union of Their Dreams chronicles the rise of the UFW during the heady days of civil rights struggles, the antiwar movement, and student activism in the 1960s and ’70s. But as Miriam Pawel shows, the UFW was ripped apart by the same man who built it.
A tour de force of reporting and a spellbinding narrative, The Union of Their Dreams explores an important and untold chapter in the history of labor, civil rights, and immigration in modern America.
“One of the most important recent books on California history.” —The Atlantic
“An engrossing narrative that is both tragic and inspiring.” —San Francisco Chronicle
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