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Summary: Fiction, At Best!
Review: Catchy Title, Bogus Evidence,
Modern Day Aryan Brainwashing!
Okay for laughs, however history is best found elsewhere from a more reputable INFORMED source.
Only recommend if one wishes to gauge how backwards some have become.
Rating: 
Summary: Liberty's Heroes and Villains
Review: Contradicting the Elitist Left's definitive "recording" of 20th century American history, Ann Coulter's Treason asserts that the great heroes of the Cold War were Reagan, Chambers, McCarthy, Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover. Contrasting media reports with documented fact (including the Venona Papers), as well as drawing from impeccably researched classics (including Weistein's Perjury and Buckley/Bozell's McCarthy and His Enemies), Coulter methodically makes her spirited case. Coulter concludes that by being guilty of opposing every patriotic stance since WWII, liberalism is de facto treason. Furthering Whittaker Chambers philosophical path, Coulter theorizes that the fanaticism of the left, based on the misguided premise that man is his own God, has doomed the American progressive movement to obscurity. Throughout Treason, libertarian entertainment abounds. If Dennis Miller's recent HBO rant whetted your patriotic thirst, Coulter's Treason will quench it. Socialists beware; rumor has it that Maureen Dowd's copy achieved spontaneous combustion. Treason is recommended to anyone who has ever doubted that "McCarthyism" was a greater scourge than communism. Point by point, Coulter thwarts the decades long anti-American propaganda spewed by the "champions of the working class". Coulter entertains and informs, attacking with the acerbic wit characteristic of, but despised by her adversaries. From within the belly of the media beast that otherwise glorifies liberty's villains, Coulter emerges a hero.
Rating:
Summary: So bad its treasonous
Review: I cant believe I read past the first page. Once again I am horified by some one who views the world with such narrow mindedness. Please don't waste your time.
Rating:
Summary: transfixed and transgendered...
Review: I knew Ann back when she called herself Tex Watson -- and it is truly thrilling to see how well she has done.
She's been keeping her Adam's Apple mighty busy attacking liberals -- and she has a point. My only difficulty with Ann's material is when she delves into the politics of transgenderism. Christine Jorgensen still seems more intelligent, more cultured than Ann. But let's give the estrogen some time -- and greet Ann's book with the same generosity of spirit she has given to so many.
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Summary: Thank you Ann Coulter!
Review: I put off buying this book for nearly two years. Though I'm a big fan of Ann Coulter, I didn't see how she had anything different to say about McCarthy than I had already learned in school. After all McCarthy and McCarthyism was just another travesty of overaggressive politicians during the Cold War.
Now I wish I would have bought the book as soon as it came out. Thanks to Ann I learned tings about McCarthy, those he accused, and his opponents in politics and the press that I never heard before. Though I had heard from time to time that those McCarthy accused of being communist spies were, I never read any book back up and prove those claims until now.
I had a history professor who said that there were two sides to every story. Unfortunately he never bothered telling the other story of McCarthy and McCarthyism or that most of the people who McCarthy accused of being communist spies were actually guilty. Thanks to Ann, I now have a better and more respectful view of a politician who had the courage and guts to do the right thing despite the unrelenting howls from the media and other politicians.
Rating:
Summary: some tough love
Review: I seem to be reading her books in backward order, beginning with "How to Talk to a Liberal" which actually makes sense, since its a compilation of articles (some previsouly unpublished) from the past several years.
As for Treason, Coulter has once again shown how easy it is to anger the Left by simply revealing the truth. Personally, I am sick of the spin from both sides of the aisle, and appreciate facts backed up by proof. That's exactly what Coulter delivers in this book. If you disagree, go look up the source material. Coulter meticulously covers all of the bases, sometimes even providing the exact search terminology she uses on LexisNexis so the Doubting Thomases of the world can go do some homework.
As I read her books, I can hear her voice -- and picture her shredding through Liberals one after another, and usually with their own words come back to haunt them.
6 stars out of 5.
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Summary: good parody except no punchlines!
Review: I started this book, and found it had many of the elements of great satire. It reminded me of the gentleman who styles himself "Gen. JC Christian, patriot" and posts his parodies at http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/ Unfortunately, Coulter often leaves out the punchline, and that has confused many of her readers. I can't resist a few examples: (from Page 5) "Liberals unreservedly call all conservatives fascists, racists, and enemies of civil liberties with no facts whatsoever." That's humorous because she never gives us a single example of a liberal who does all these things; much less evidence that liberals as a group do. This form of humor is called irony. Another: "Liberals relentlessly attack their country, but we can't call them traitors, which they manifestly are, because that would be 'McCarthyism,' which never existed." See, that's a joke, because McCarthy himself used the word. For example, in Wisconsin in his 1952 re-election he said "McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled." Also in 1952, he published a collection of speeches "McCarthyism: The Fight for America." Yet Coulter continues to deny McCarthyism existed. Such a glaring contradiction is clear proof of parody. Another funny: She accuses General George Marshall (WWII commander, later Sec'y of State), creator of "the Marshall Plan" that rebuilt Europe after WWII, of a "strange attraction" to "sedition" and calls him a "sniffing pantywaist." Here's why that's funny. Winston Churchill called Marshall the "true architect of victory" in the West European arena of World War II, summing up Marshall's efforts against Nazism. Clearly, the Marshall Plan was our nation's greatest deed ever in foreign affairs, and our best single bulkwark against communism. Marshall was also one of the creators of NATO, and was Sec'y of Defense during the beginning of the Korean War (see his short biography at http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/gcm.htm). Indubitably, Marshall did more against Communism than any other single American. Questioning Marchall's patriotism only makes sense as ironic humor. The problem is, Coulter often leaves out the punchlines. Or, to put it more accurately, the punchline is elsewhere in the historical record, like Senator McCarthy's own book, or Marshall's biography. The problem is, many readers take the book literally and don't recognize the satires and the parodies. I admit, I skipped ahead in the book looking for the big punchline, but I never found it. Therefore, I'm sorry to have to rate this book as flawed humor: It's a very long joke without the punchline.
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Summary: Hurray for Tragic Humor!
Review: I've read Coulter's material before, and "caustic" doesn't accurately describe her. This, like many of her works, uses simple spin tactics (for Christ's sake, if you're going to spin, do it convincingly!), an odd mix of vocabulary (which leads me to believe she heavily relies on either a Thesaurus or an editor), and a nice wave of what can either be identified as stupidity or another spin device that looks like stupidity.
It's people like this that make my day. If it weren't for people like Ann Coulter and the rest of the self-chained right, I wouldn't have something to giggle at. It's because of these people that I debate about religion and politics out of enjoyment.
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Summary: greatness
Review: If a certain felatio addicted president had only done his presidential duty after the first attack on the world trade center perhaps less people would have needlessly died.
Liberalism is indeed evil.
Rating:
Summary: loved the book
Review: man i love partisan politics. it is as entertaining as some of the best hollywood movies, and Ann Coulter is one of the best. whether you agree with her views or not, it is a throughly entertaining book.
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