Career
The book was started when Bernstein was 93 and published in 2007, when he was 96. His second book, The Dream, published in 2008, centered on his family’s move to the West Side of Chicago in 1922 when he was twelve. A fourth book, What Happened to Rose, will be published posthumously in 2012.
Before his retirement at age 62, Bernstein worked for various movie production companies, reading scripts and working as a magazine editor for trade magazines.
He also wrote freelance articles for such publications as Popular Mechanics, Family Circle and Newsweek. Bernstein lived in Brick Township, New Jersey.
He died at the age of 101, on June 3, 2011. "You"ve got to be taught to hate.
You"ve got to be taught from the time you"re six or seven or eight.
lieutenant"s put in your mind. They didn"t know why they hated us.".
