Pondering Alphabetic SOLUTIONS

About the Book

The author of Breakdown, Unconscionable and No Land an Island No People Apart again tackles U.S. foreign and domestic affairs in context of global relations and the inescapable nexus of act and consequence. This time Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett ponders Solutions in thought and act: “America,” one nation indivisible held together by (citizen) Duty; “Peace,” words without violence; to V- X- Y- Z, Vive la Difference from Xenophobia and Zealotry. Along with the book’s alphabetic textual design are centerfold images—also centering the author’s motive and protest—of people displaced from four continents (Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas), rendered homeless by tribal politics, leaders’ foreign and domestic policies, endless war and conflict. For the student, researcher or seeker of alternative perspectives, the book contains full and detailed reference and index sections as well as appendices of pertinent biographical material and historic documents of the United States and the United Nations.

About the Author

My Peace Corps teaching years in West Africa inform my worldview. However, I have always been interested in public affairs, international relations, humanity, society, and the public good. Writing is my preferred instrument for voicing my concerns; and in recent years, I have become more and more deeply concerned about the corruption, incompetence, human rights abuse and lawlessness evident in the caliber and character of my country’s leadership. I am an educator by training and at heart and credentialed in education, print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University–East Lansing; MA, the American University–Washington, DC). In my area of interest, I have written a fair number of books: Unconscionable: How the World Sees Us (2014); No Land an Island No People Apart (2012); Same Ole or Something New (2010); Breakdown (2009); Women’s Work and Words Altering World Order (2008); Missing News and Views in Paranoid Times (2006); No Room for Despair . . . Mary McLeod Bethune’s Cold War, Integration-Era Commentary (2005); Talking Back to Today’s News (2003); America’s Human Connection (1994); An Annotated Bibliography of Mary McLeod Bethune’s Chicago Defender Columns, 1948–1955 (2001); You Can Struggle without Hating, Fight without Violence (cir. 1988). Current news and views, politics and public affairs are found at Bennett’s Study / Today’s Insight News, http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com, with links to my Facebook page.