"Guenter Lewy" is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts. He has also served on the faculties of Columbia University and Smith College. He is the author of many books and articles and he has notably published "False Consciousness: An Essay on Mystification" (Transaction), "The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey" (University of Utah Press), and "The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies" (Oxford University Press). This new effort emerges from general concerns raised in his previous writings.