The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return Grief & Loss Benson teaches American Literature at

Benson teaches American Literature at San Diego State University

pack up and head back to my hometown

I can't stay away-even if I should

first as a public school teacher and later as an administrator at Xavier University in New Orleans

powerful boss in town to make sure Ghost's takes his last breath

The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return Grief & Loss Benson teaches American Literature atAMERICA AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN The next election is the most important one America has faced in more than a century. That's not campaign hype. America is divided as almost never before with contesting political factions regarding themselves not as rivals but as enemies. And the frightening thing is that, in large part, they're right. The Democratic Party has become the party of "identity politics" and every one of those identities is defined