Episode 8: Miriam Pawel

Miriam Pawel is the author of The Browns of California, The Union of Their Dreams, and The Crusades of Cesar Chavez.

Part of what I think is important about my work is that I try to translate California for people who do not live here—particularly people on the East Coast. I always say that I understand what they think of California because I was one of them. [I] really began to write about California because I found it such a fascinating place and, in many ways, a misunderstood one.

Notes and references from this episode: 

@miriampawel, Twitter

The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement, by Miriam Pawel

The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, by Miriam Pawel

The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty That Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation, by Miriam Pawel

Miriam Pawel - NY Times Opinion archive

The First Lady, by Stu VanAirsdale, Sactown magazine

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