The decline of American communism a history of the Communist Party of the United States since 1945 - Shannon, David A. 1920-1991 (Harcourt, Brace, 1959)
Incomplete contents: pt. 1 The American Communist Party: Postwar Readjustment -- New Leader and New Line -- The Party Line for America -- Party Organization, Party Strength, and Party Life -- pt. 2 The Unpopular Front -- Creating Gideon's Army- The Progressive Party -- Professional Soldiers in a Campaign That Failed -- pt. 3 Years of Suspicion -- The Party and Anti-Communism -- The Party's Internal Security -- pt. 4 The Age of Khrushchev -- Slow Thaw in the Cold War -- Tarnished Heroes: Stalin and Foster -- Hungary and Further Disillusion -- An Impotent Part