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Communism and Culture: Another, Different Kind of Immigrant Experience

A recent Publishers Weekly newsletter listed “10 Essential Books About the Immigrant Experience.” None are about my kind of “immigrant experience,” nor have they ever been.
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Communism and Culture: Another, Different Kind of Immigrant Experience
A photo of 2-year-old Mary Grabar on her inoculation records when she entered the United States. Courtesy of Mary Grabar
Mary Grabar
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A recent Publishers Weekly newsletter listed “10 Essential Books About the Immigrant Experience.“ None are about my kind of ”immigrant experience,” nor have they ever been.

When I escaped Yugoslavia at age 2 with my parents, I was too young to remember what it was like to live under communism.

Mary Grabar
Mary Grabar
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Mary Grabar holds a doctorate in English from the University of Georgia and taught in a number of colleges in Georgia, most recently Emory University. In 2014, she became a resident fellow at The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization and wrote two books, “Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America” (2019) and “Debunking The 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America” (2021). More information and articles can be found at MaryGrabar.com and DissidentProf.com.