The "Introduction," dissects and analyzes the role and influence of LaRouche-inspired propaganda directed against Leo Strauss.

Barry Sheppard's political memoir of his time in the S.W.P. contains a detailed account of "Operation Mop-Up." NCLC's attack on Communists and Trotskyists, which earned them a reputation as fascists.

LaRouche's characterization of Jewish neo-cons (Leo Strauss, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle) as "Children of Satan," is but a more recent example of his continued use of anti-semitic language to describe his political enemies.

Why do people join cults or mass political movements? Eric Hoffer's classic social-psychology study of the "true believer" reveals the state of mind of the convert to such movements.

Mike Billington was one of the few organizers for the LaRouche movement to join in the early 70s, move up the ranks and follow LaRouche to prison. His story/perspective is of an insider/believer.

Why are so many cults run by madmen? And what is the relationship between a madman and a man of genius? Price and Stevens attempt to answer these puzzling questions from an evolutionary psychological perspective. This work doesn't specifically mention Lyndon LaRouche.

This collection by LaRouche's former ally in the S. W. P. contains her essay "LaRouche: Sex Maniac and Demagogue" explaining the reasons for LaRouche's defection from the Left.

This work explores the political paranoid personality in theory and political history, a section discusses Lyndon LaRouche.

Part I contains an unabridged version Hofstadter's classic '63 essay on "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," one of the first scholarly examinations of political paranoia.

James S. Kunen was a student at Columbia during the spring of 68. As an amateur journalist, he documented the days leading up to, and following the student strike. During which, he interviewed Tony Papert and attended a lecture by Lyn Marcus (aka Lyndon LaRouche).

A must for anyone seeking to understand the source of LaRouche's political and economic arguments. This book locates the sources for LaRouche's conspiracy theory of capitalist imperialism.

One of the few comparative studies on Trotskyist and Maoist movements in the U.S. undertaken within the context of Marxist-Leninist politics. Briefly mentions LaRouche/NCLC.

One of the first works to expose LaRouchism as a revival of right-wing conspiracism in the "paranoid" tradition of American politics.

Part Three of Arendt's trilogy on "The Origins of Totalitarianism," compares and contrasts the similarities and subtle differences between Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany, underlining the common traits of totalitarianism, LaRouche's "real" political ideology.