Hello Again, Manzanar
In 7th grade, my English teacher had us read Farewell to Manzanar, a 1973 memoir which tells the true story of a young girl growing up inside the Manzanar Japanese-American internment camp during World War II.
Stewart Margolis
I began studying Objectivism in my teens & co-founded UCLA's Ayn Rand Club in 1985. Since then I've written & directed award-winning movies, published nonfiction (https://shorturl.at/BWlzM) & worked on & off at the Ayn Rand Institute.
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