This book was a FUCKING trip! Dennis King did great research and exhaustively covered LaRouche's upbringing, his shifts from conservative Quaker to Trotskyist with the SWP, to the: creation of an anti-Semitic cult building dual power intelligence services, attempts to defend aging nazi war criminals, promoted science & scifi around directed-energy weapons, links to mafia-adjacent Teamster bosses, scammed conservative elders out of millions of dollars, ran politicians as Democrats and himself as president 8 times, had connections to the Reagan admin, and even bullied Roy Cohn into a corner. And this was just the up until 1988 when the book was published and LaRouche went to prison! He got out after like 5 years and his international structures continued to function to various degrees, with chapters in Germany, Sweden, Mexico and other places. What a ride! LaRouche died in 2019, but his widow (Helga) and others continue organizations like The Schiller Institute and adherents have continued to harass "green" progressive democrats and exist in similar ecosystems as PatSoc, RedBrown, National Bolshevist and third positionist weirdos. I'm hoping, some day, to dig into the 1,000 + page tome by Kevin Coogan (former LaRouchite himself, written under a psuedonym, Hylozoic Hedgehog), "Smiling Man From a Dying Planet", but sadly it was never printed so there's only online editions.