BREAKDOWN: Violence in Search of U (you)-Turn

About the Book

A river of blood runs through U.S. foreign and domestic relations leaving in its wake a BREAKDOWN.

Policy has power to destroy and to heal. BREAKDOWN wrestles with both the manifestations of a pervasive violence and a means toward mending. It lays out the problem in U.S. foreign and domestic affairs and offers a bailout—a turn around, a U-turn in fresh ideas.

This compelling political manifesto transports readers from war-torn southwest central Asia to Africa’s Horn to Colombia’s cocoa plantations and Afghanistan’s poppy fields to education deficits-USA and homelessness on the streets of LA. The trip drives home the old truth that endless war is lightning striking the foundations of liberty and causing BREAKDOWN.

American author and independent journalist—a former Peace Corps teacher—Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett’s notes and commentary decry the way of violence and argue for community consciousness, words over war in content and execution of U.S. foreign and domestic policies. Bennett’s internationalist educator nonpartisan progressivist credentials shine throughout this well-orchestrated dialogue of current affairs and historical contexts in violence, rallying readers to assist a U-turn from America’s way of violence into a new progressive society.

BREAKDOWN offers a fully documented and indexed account of regressive status quo and progressive society.

About the Author

Dr. Carolyn L. Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs. A
lifelong American writer and writer/activist (former academic and staffer with the U.S.
government in Washington), her work concerns itself with news and current affairs,
historical contexts and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign
relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, violence and nonviolence. Bennett is an
internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the
common good. An educator at heart, her career began with U.S. Peace Corps teaching in
Sierra Leone, West Africa.
Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current affairs articles; her most recent
writings are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/. She lives in
the town of Brighton at the edge of New York’s Finger Lakes along the Erie Canal looking
west-northwest to Niagara Falls; and can be reached at authorswork@gmail.com
Works by this author
In addition to No Land an Island, Bennett’s books include Same Ole or Something New:
Uprooting Power ENTRENCHMENT
BREAKDOWN: Violence in Search of U (you)-Turn
Women’s Work and Words Altering World Order
Missing News and Views in Paranoid Times
No Room for Despair: How to Hope in Troubled Times; Mary McLeod
Bethune’s Cold War, Integration-era Commentary
Talking Back to Today’s News
America’s Human Connection
An Annotated Bibliography of Mary McLeod Bethune’s Chicago
Defender Columns, 1948-1955
You Can Struggle without Hating, Fight without Violence
Numerous current affairs articles, most recent ones published at Bennett’s
Study Today’s Insight News, http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com.