Break Down the Walls

by John Bartlow Martin

This book is a thunderbolt. With merciless truth it reveals prison conditions in our country now. But more than that, it shows why these prisons can never really work: and it states a dramatic program for the future. It may prove to be one of those few books that help to change the world we live in.

256 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1954

About the author

John Bartlow Martin was an American journalist, diplomat and author. The American Ambassador to the Dominican Republic from 1962 until 1964, he was a speechwriter and confidant to many American Democratic politicians including Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Hubert Humphrey.