Trampling Out the Vintage
Trampling Out the Village 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.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
“Bardacke is a talented writer, burning with rage against injustice, and his subject is one of the most attractive and charismatic figures US politics has produced.”
—Francis Beckett, Guardian
“An ... intelligent, thorough history. [Chavez’s] truth is marching on.”
“[T]he first comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the UFW, written from the viewpoint of the farmworkers who vitalized the movement known as ‘La Causa.’”
—Eric Brazil, San Francisco Chronicle
“The best history ever written of the United Farm Workers (UFW) and Cesar Chavez. Certain to become a classic of U.S. working class history.”
—Michael Yates, Upside Down World
“Frank Bardacke has written the comprehensive history of the United Farm Workers, a definitive biography of Cesar Chavez and a magnificent guide to the politics and sociology of the 1960s-80s. Deserves #1 ranking as the best labor history of the year.”
—Saul Landau, Daily Censored
“You can take little sections out of the book and they’re the best thing ever written on the subject.”
—Harold Meyerson, judge, Hillman Prize for Book Journalism