Background
Lewy, Guenter was born on August 22, 1923 in Breslau, Germany. Came to the United States, 1947. Son of Henry and Rosel (Leipziger) Lewy.
( The author critically confronts those social scientist...)
The author critically confronts those social scientists who assert that elite classes in capitalist countries use the media and the education system to manipulate the proletariat thus perpetuate their own power. He offers a balanced yet determined defense of rationality and pluralism through detailed analysis of the theory of false consciousness-a notion that people under capitalism do not know their best interests-in the writings of nineteenth century Marxism, modern communism, and the New Left. Lewy documents Soviet and Chinese brainwashing efforts to eradicate dangerous political ideas and values derived from false consciousness. He reviews recent attempts in the Federal Republic of Germany to free young people from false consciousness by means of intense political indoctrination. Finally, he marshals recent social scientific evidence to demonstrate that in the United States education and the mass media in fact often challenge traditional accepted values and the status quo. Guenter Lewy is professor of political science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
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(Based on a variety of classified military records, Lewy p...)
Based on a variety of classified military records, Lewy provides the first systematic analysis of the course of the Vietnam War, the reasons for the failure of American strategy and tactics, and the causes of the final collapse of South Vietnam.
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(From a height of almost 100,000 members during the Depres...)
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 glasnost. He traces its origins and development, underscoring how its devotion to Moscow and inflexible Marxist ideology isolated it from the American scene--in fact, most of its first members were Eastern European immigrants. During the left wing tide of the Depression the Communist Party reached the peak of its influence, as it joined labor unions and progressive organizations in a "Popular Front." But Lewy reveals the deceptive, antidemocratic, self-defeating tactics the Communists pursued even then, as they manipulated front organizations, seized control of political parties, peace groups, and labor unions, and enforced political conformity among members and sympathizers. He follows the Party through its inexorable decline in the succeeding decades, up to its current position as one of the last Stalinist parties left in a world of glasnost and perestroika. Lewy also provides a sharply critical discussion of the encounter between Communism and liberal and mainstream America. He examines such groups as the ACLU and SANE, arguing that the years when these organizations were tolerant toward Communists were also the times when they neglected their original purpose in favor of partisan causes. He shows how Communists have manipulated well-meaning citizens in the peace movement and in Wallace's 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign. One of the great ills Americans suffer, he writes, is an overreaction to McCarthyism--an atmosphere of anti-anticommunism--which blinds them to the wrongs wrought by international Communism and makes them ignore the deceptive role played by the American Communist Party, which even today still keeps eighty percent of its membership secret. The Cause that Failed presents an intensively researched and trenchantly argued historical analysis of Communism in America. Guenter Lewy's provocative account provides a new understanding of Communism's machinations in U.S. politics, and how Americans from across the political spectrum have responded to its challenge.
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( ”The subject matter of this book is controversial,” Gue...)
”The subject matter of this book is controversial,” Guenter Lewy states plainly in his preface. To show the German Catholic Church’s congeniality with some of the goals of National Socialism and its gradual entrapment in Nazi policies and programs, Lewy describes the episcopate’s support of Hitler’s expansionist policies and its failures to speak out on the persecution of the Jews. To this tragic history Lewy brings new focus and research, illuminating one of the darkest corners of our century with scholarship and intellectual honesty in a riveting, and often painful, narrative.
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Lewy, Guenter was born on August 22, 1923 in Breslau, Germany. Came to the United States, 1947. Son of Henry and Rosel (Leipziger) Lewy.
Bachelor in Social Science, City College of New York, 1951. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1957.
Instructor government Columbia University, 1953-1956. Assistant professor government Smith College, 1957-1963. Associate professor political science University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1964-1966, professor, 1966-1985, retired, since 1985.
Director National Endowment of the Humanities Institute, 1979. Visiting scholar American Enterprise Institute, 1981-1982.
(From a height of almost 100,000 members during the Depres...)
(Based on a variety of classified military records, Lewy p...)
( The author critically confronts those social scientist...)
( ”The subject matter of this book is controversial,” Gue...)
(New Brunswick 1982 Transaction. 129pp. Political philosop...)
Sergeant British Army, 1942-1946.
Married Ilse Nussbaum, December 29, 1950. Children: Barbara Jean, Peter Ralph.