Lyndon LaRouche and the new American fascism

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A Trotskyist in the 1940s, four-time presidential candidate, head of the National Democratic Policy Committee, right-wing extremist Lyndon LaRouche was recently convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges. King, a journalist who has unveiled the workings of the LaRouche cult almost singlehandedly over the years, here produces a courageous, hard-hitting expose. The LaRouchians raised over $200 million in loans and donations from the public, despite what the author describes as the sect's "classic fascist" ideology, anti-Semitism, brain-washing, smear tactics and fanatical support of the Star Wars defense system and military build-up. According to King, LaRouche's eccentric posturing (he claimed the Queen of England was a drug pusher and branded Henry Kissinger a communist agent) was useful cover--a pose to distract the media while LaRouche forged bonds with the Reagan administration, the CIA, the National Security Council, the Ku Klux Klan and other white-supremacist groups, Teamster bosses and crime lords, among others. King charges that the major media looked the other way, adopting a "see-no-evil" policy that allowed LaRouche to flourish. Introduction -- pt. 1. The vanguard -- Makings of an ideologue -- Do you believe in Marxist magic? -- Operation mop up -- The great Manchurian candidate scare -- The Beethoven gang -- The Jewish question -- pt. 2. What LaRouche wants -- The grand design -- pt. 3. LaRouche and star wars -- The greatest invention since fire -- The "higher" peace movement -- Old Nazis and new dreams -- pt. 4. Building a movement -- More American than apple pie -- The Götterdämmercrats -- Tanks down State Street -- After Illinois -- LaRouche and the Reagan revolution -- The art of scapegoating -- Get Kissinger! -- pt. 5. LaRouche's private CIA -- The billion-dollar brain -- Intrigue on five continents -- The wooing of Langley -- Night Riders to the rescue -- Join the spooks and stay out of jail -- pt. 6. The security staff -- The school of dirty tricks -- Law and order, LaRouche style -- An agent of chaos -- To Roy Cohn, with love -- pt. 7. Conspiracies and code words -- LaRouche's purloined letter -- Babylonians under every bed -- Elizabeth, Queen of the Jews -- The war between the species -- pt. 8. LaRouche, Inc.: the tycoon -- The root of all evil -- The shell game -- The world's most expensive glass of sherry -- pt. 9. LaRouche, Inc.: the underworld connection -- The war on drugs, so called -- Las Vegas in the sky -- Fishing for piranhas -- How to win friends and influence hoodlums -- Senators, cabinet members, and dictators -- Afterword: Why LaRouche was not fought -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index