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From a height of almost 100,000 members during the Depression, when politicians, workers, and intellectuals were drawn into its orbit, the American Communist Party has descended into irrelevance and isolation, failing even to run a presidential candidate in 1988. Indeed, as Guenter Lewy writes in this critical account of American Communism, despite decades of feverish activity and ferocious discipline, it was a cause doomed to fail from the very beginning. In The Cause that Failed, Lewy offers an incisive narrative of the American Communist Party from the days of John Reed to the advent of gla.

Reviews violent history of Indian-White relations from the colonial period until closing of the frontier in the late 19th century; argues that the most important factor in the Indians' catastrophic decline was disease, not conflict, and that their tragic fate did not result from genocide but from an irreconciliable collision of cultures and values. Applicability of the concept of genocide, as defined under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, to the Native American experience.

Describes how the hatred and persecution experienced throughout history is not only due to prejudice and xenophobia but also to the fact that some of the Gypsies' traits, customs, attitudes, and resistance to assimilation tends to create and reinforce hostility among the populations they encounter; chiefly, Europe. Extermination of European Gypsies during World War II and conditions in Europe today.