Throughout his political career, Charles J. Haughey has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: The Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane revelations, the Moriarity Tribunal and the McCracken Tribunal, to name a few.

In this up-to-date recoed of Haughey's controversial career, T.Ryle Dwyer delivers his conclusions on the Haughey years.

Lively, succinct, opinionated, drawing extensively on independent research, Forty Years of Controversy is the indispensable handbook for anyone intruiged by one of Ireland's most inscruitable politicians.