Awards

• Winner of Sidney Hillman Prize 2012

Overview

In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slogan ""Yes, we can""-in the form ""¡Sí, Se Puede!""-winning many labor victories, securing collective bargaining rights for farm workers, and becoming a major voice for the Latino community. Today, it is a mere shadow of its former self. Trampling Out the Vintage is the authoritative and award-winning account of the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers and its most famous and controversial leader, Cesar Chavez. Based interviews conducted over many years-with farm workers, organizers, and the opponents and friends of the UFW-the book tells a story of collective action and empowerment rich in evocative detail and stirring human interest. Beginning with the influence of the ideas of Saul Alinsky and Catholic Social Action at the union's founding, through the UFW's thrilling triumphs in the California fields, the drama concludes with the debilitating internal struggles that effectively crippled the union. A vivid rendering of farm work and the world of the farm worker, Trampling Out the Vintage is a dramatic reappraisal of the political trajectory of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers and an essential re-evaluation of their most tumultuous years. Winner of the 2012 Hillman Prize in Book Journalism.

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A radically honest, uncompromising and often painful deconstruction of the legend of Cesar Chavez, Trampling Out the Vintage is one of the long-awaited books of our time. Having spent almost a decade as an agricultural worker in California's Pajaro Valley (where he still lives), Bardacke 's account evokes the spirit of Steinbeck, resurrecting the true heroes of La Causa the rank and file fieldworkers and reminding us that the grapes of wrath still remain to be harvested for social justice. --Mike Davis

Winner 2012 Hillman Prize in Book Journalism Winner 2012 United Association for Labor Education Best Book Award The first comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the UFW. San Francisco Chronicle One of the long-awaited books of our time... Bardacke's account evokes the spirit of Steinbeck, resurrecting the true heroes of La Causa - the rank - and - file fieldworkers - and reminding us that the grapes of wrath still remain to be harvested for social justice. Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and City of Quartz A magnificent and tragic history. Dissent Refreshingly, sympathetically, and beautifully told. Alexander Cockburn, coauthor of Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press A landmark book. The Nation Bardacke is a talented writer, burning with rage against injustice. Guardian An intelligent, thorough history. Chavez's truth is marching on. The Economist Superb. Mother Jones

Author Information

Frank Bardacke was active in the student and anti-war movements in Berkeley in the 1960s. He moved to California's Central Coast in 1970, worked for six seasons in the Salinas Valley fields, and taught at Watsonville Adult School for twenty-five years. He is the author of Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers, Good Liberals and Great Blue Herons: Land, Labor and Politics in the Pajaro Valley, and a translator of Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

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