Chavez, and a 22-inch bust of Cesar Chavez sits behind his desk in the Oval Office. President Joe Biden has long been an admirer of Mr. Cohen, a longtime friend, was in some ways a double outsider to the heart of Cesar Chavez’s mission, which was deeply Catholic and deeply concerned with the plight of the brown and poor.

Cohen’s recollection of his years with the U.F.W. and growers, as well as with different local and state governments about the right to organize, protest and challenge a system of power that one judge referred to as “Gringo Justice,” which is the title of Mr. He was integrally involved in negotiations between the U.F.W.

He introduces figures such as the co-coordinator of the boycott, Jerry Brown the undisputed leader of the international boycott, Elaine Elinson and Harry Kubo, the Japanese American farmer who led a successful campaign against the UFW in the mid-1970s.Jerry Cohen represented the United Farm Workers for nearly a decade and worked closely with Cesar Chavez. Garcia also presents in-depth studies of other leaders in the UFW, including Gilbert Padilla, Marshall Ganz, Dolores Huerta, and Jerry Cohen.

From the Jaws of Victory delves deeply into Chavez's attitudes and beliefs, and how they changed over time. Ultimately, the union was a victim of its own success and Chavez's growing instability. Garcia vividly relates how, as the union expanded and the boycott spread across the United States, Canada, and Europe, Chavez found it more difficult to organize workers and fend off rival unions. Matt Garcia's gripping account of the expansion of the union's grape boycott reveals how the boycott, which UFW leader Cesar Chavez initially resisted, became the defining feature of the movement and drove the growers to sign labor contracts in 1970. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW.

From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history.

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