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Take a Trip to 1968 via “The Road to Delano”

What the average American knows about the Delano Grape Strike would probably fit on the head of a pin. Most of us can quote a sentence or two from Martin Luther King Jr.’s impassioned “I’ve got a dream” speech. We can call up an image of Ghandi, clad in his…
Sherri Daley
March 6, 2020
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John DeSimone on Delano and the Lessons of Cesar Chavez

How many people can recall the classic image after the 1968 Delano Grape Boycott of a weakened Cesar Chavez breaking a 25-day hunger strike seated next to Senator Robert Kennedy? Unfortunately, too few – history buffs or not. Yet Chavez’s fire and commitment had staggering repercussions, and John DeSimone’s The…
BookTrib
April 4, 2020
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John DeSimone

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/John-DeSimone-Blue-Shirt-crop300.jpg John DeSimone Historical Fiction Memoirist, editor and author of The Road to Delano, a historical novel set during the Delano grape strike in the late 1960s. John DeSimone is a novelist, memoirist and editor. He’s co-authored bestselling memoirs, including The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan, and others.…
BookTrib
March 9, 2020

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