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Lyndon Larouche and the New American Fascism Hardcover – January 1, 1989


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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 415 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (January 1, 1989)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0385238800
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385238809
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,484,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly

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.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

In this portrait of LaRouche and his followers, journalist King provides a case study of the development of a radical movement. He discusses LaRouche's childhood, which helped to shape LaRouche's particular world view, as well as LaRouche's strange odyssey from left-wing Marxist to right-wing leader of the reactionary National Democratic Policy Committee. King examines the bizarre coalitions--the Ku Klux Klan and black civil rights groups, for example--that LaRouche has managed to form and galvanize into political action. LaRouche has also managed to maintain ties to such disparate figures as Manuel Noriega and Teamsters' boss Jackie Presser. This is a riveting narrative about a man who would say or do anything to gain personal power and who seems to have used his blatant anti-Semitism to successfully entice followers.
- Frank Kessler, Missouri Western State Coll., St. Joseph
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful By Ashtar Command on July 5, 2009
Format: Hardcover
The LaRouche Movement is probably the strangest (and most well known) political fringe group in America. They have even been mentioned on "The Simpsons"! But what are they, what are they *really*?

Essentially, there are two alternative analyses of LaRouche and his movement. Some believe he is a crazy cult leader, or just crazy. This is probably the majority opinion. Others regard LaRouche as a quite serious agent provocateur, either a covert neo-Nazi and anti-Semite, or (in some versions) a covert Communist. The author of this book, Dennis King, supports the second idea: LaRouche knows what he's doing, he's a Nazi and anti-Semite, a right-wing extremist who changes his public political colours depending on who he is addressing this week. Dennis King is a long time LaRouche watcher, and has a website devoted to exposing both the LaRouchians and a strangely similar movement around one Fred Newman.

I knew about the LaRouche Movement already as a teenager. The reason is simple: we have them in Sweden as well! The Swedish branch of the LaRouchites, known as EAP, was very active about 30 years ago. They constantly slandered Olof Palme, an important and high profile Swedish politician who was prime minister 1969-76 and 1982-1986. He was assassinated in 1986. Palme was a Social Democrat, and it's interesting to note that the EAP went after him both during their "Communist" phase and their "far right wing" phase. And yes, they really did went after him! On several occasions, EAP agitators ran after Palme in the streets of Stockholm after political meetings, asked him slanderous questions at press conferences, or attempted to come as close as possible to him at May Day rallies, carrying placards with Palme depicted in full Nazi regalia.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful By eaglebeak on May 16, 2012
Format: Hardcover
I was a member of the LaRouche organization from 1973 to 2007, and was a member of its leadership body, the National Committee, for 25 of those years. (As a matter of fact, I am named in Dennis King's book as a LaRouche "trusted lieutenant" or words to that effect.)

With that expertise under my belt, I can say that King's book is basically fair and accurate.

I think King does not realize the extent to which LaRouche followers do not consider themselves Nazis or anti-Semites, but he is certainly right that their effect in the world has been that of anti-Semites.

I also think that King does not sufficiently take into account the cultlike aspects of the LaRouche organization--he sees them too much as a political phenomenon, and not enough as a psychopathic/cult phenomenon.

But overall, it's honest. it's extremely well-researched, and it is by far the best single thing available to read on the LaRouche phenomenon. By all means grab it if you can find it.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful By Steven H Propp TOP 100 REVIEWER on April 24, 2012
Format: Hardcover
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born 1922) is an American political activist, and eight-time presidential candidate (1976-2004); he was imprisoned from 1988-1994 for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and tax code violations (he even briefly shared a cell with televangelist Jim Bakker, detailed in Bakker's book I Was Wrong: The Untold Story of the Shocking Journey from PTL Power to Prison and Beyond). He heads one of the strangest (or at least, most unique) organizations on the political scene (decried as a "cult" by many), and also operates a fairly well-respected private intelligence service.

Author Dennis King wrote in the Introduction to this 1989 book, "We shall pierce the screen that has concealed the real story of ... Lyndon LaRouche and his potentially explosive ideology and movement... This book will... investigate the motives of the remarkable range of allies that LaRouche gathered along the way..."

He notes that LaRouche has "repeatedly suggested" that "he served as a government informant" within the Socialist Workers' Party. (Pg. 8) He asserts that "LaRouche has demonstrated the vulnerability of the public, when frightened and angry, to the lure of thinly veiled fascist measures. He had desensitized millions to the idea of rounding up unpopular minorities. His California ballot initiatives had revealed that many Americans with healthy biological immune systems have no political immune systems at all." (Pg. 144)

He admits that "It is thus hardly a surprise that American journalists have difficulty understanding what LaRouche is about. They assume he will use ideas and words in as straightforward a way as they themselves do.
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9 of 14 people found the following review helpful By A Customer on February 9, 1999
Format: Hardcover
Some years ago, I encountered the LaRouche movement; since then I have learned and wanted to learn much about them and about LaRouche especially. I learned about King's book from their literature and did not expect it to be flattering, but I did expect it to contain information that would shed some light on the man and the movement. Although there were some informative bits and I didn't have high expectations for the book, it was still worse than I expected. When LaRouche and his associates criticized King's book, they did make an effort to explain where King was coming from and why he wrote the book. Unfortunately, I found little or no corresponding explanation of LaRouche in King's book. King does a good job of providing a bookful of anecdotes about LaRouche but his work as a whole exhibits little depth and makes at best a weak attempt at analysis.
Who the heck is Lyndon LaRouche? Where does he come from? Where is he trying to go? Why did he leave his comfortable management consulting practice to start a political movement? Who are his followers? Where do they come from? Why are they so loyal? WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? Why has LaRouche been so popular with certain groups in America? Doesn't the fact that he is popular with these people say something informative about some sectors of American society? Why is it that virtually every remnant of the New Left of the 1960s has long ago disappeared while the LaRouche movement still exists in 1999? How has this longevity been possible?
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