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He has appeared on anderson cooper 360, cnn newsroom, and the rachel maddow. David neiwerts strawberry days brings the reader face to face with real people and a real community whose lives were shattered by american racism and wartime hysteria. It reminds us that the internment was not just the oppression of a huge ethnic group. David neiwert remains a deeply underappreciated author. He began work on the manuscript in 1994, and has since written two other books, in.
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