Rating:  Summary: I'm completely amused by these reviews.... Review: especially the one by the person who claims so many Americans are "boarder-line illiterate" (um...that would be "borderline", hon). Thanks for the laugh, though. Fun way to start my day.
Rating:  Summary: Fascinating book Review: Treason is a fascinating read. Her chapters on McCarthy, and Alger Hiss are fascinating. I found the chapter on Hiss particularly striking - it agreed perfectly with what my parents (who lived through the time) told me about the case. "Treason" is more like "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" than "Slander" - less entertaining and more serious.
Rating:  Summary: Rewrites history and Skips Important Events and Facts. Review: How can she write about about McCarthy and not mention his campaign in 1949 on the behalf of the Nazi SS Officers convicted of war crimes in the massacre of 83 Americans in Malmedy during the battle of the bulge. The S.S. officers were sentenced to death but McCarthy claimed they were framed and set up by Americans. She also fails to mention the Voice or America investigation which proved to be an outragous waste of time and money. She blames liberals for his downfall, when infact it was President Eisenhower and a causus of G.O.P. senators including the current Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, who voted to censure him along with democrats. She repeatedly uses quotes out of context and uses them to make a point that is not true. Anyone whoe reads this book should also look for themselves into what she states as fact. She is pushing an agenda not truth, using twisted evidence and name calling.
Rating:  Summary: a given audience Review: I think this book is playing to a specific audience - the tried and true conservatives that run the government and other like them. But this isn't bad. I don't agree with everything because I am not this kind of person, but the book is pretty well written and it is not as badly documented as some reviewers say. I give it three stars (middle ground) because I think some of the author's conclusions are too much, but I don't agree with the people who give it 1 star because it does have merit. Anybody not understand?
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: Scientology for conservatives. Review: "Treason" offers a glimpse of what L. Ron Hubbard might have produced if he had invented a political philosophy instead of a religion.
Rating:  Summary: Amazing Review: The demolishing by Ann Coulter of the psuedo-reality liberal revisionists have created about our country, especially during the Cold War, made me feel alot like Neo being unplugged from the Matrix. The shock of the overwhelming truth that contradicts everything you thought you've known about anyone from the "evil" Joe McCarthy, J Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, to the "heroic" and "brave" Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F Kennedy, and literally hundreds of other Soviet agents, sympatizers and dupes is almost too much for the mind to take. I don't believe it. I want out! LET ME OUT! Breath, Neo! Just breath! Regardless of whether the term "treason" is appropriate, if Maureen Dowd were to write about a similar book about conservative "treachery", she'd suffer from the worst case of writer's block in the history of written word. Of course, if conservatives were to sink to her level, that wouldn't be something she'd want to criticize them for. Perhaps if liberals are afraid of being labeled traitors, they should start acting like patriots. This book is amazing.
Rating:  Summary: Did you bother to READ the book? Review: It's amazing how the only thing liberals can come back with is, "It was written on a 3rd grade level." That sounds like a critique from a 3rd grader. Maybe you should learn how to spell "border-line", Mr. Elite Liberal. Did you bother to read the book or check ALL of the documentation of her FACTS. Just like every lib on every talk show, you ALWAYS skirt the issue and pull up the same old, tired rhetoric. Is it possible for a lib to answer a question??? This book is absolutely incredible, and anyone with half a brain can see through the liberal lies that have been paraded through the, yes, liberal, press for the past 50+ years. Ms. Coulter shines through again for those of us who can understand what she is talking about. She uses many big words that most liberals have not seen nor heard before, so a dictionary might be needed for those of you on a 3rd grade reading level. The "kool-aid" drinkers have not a clue. The truth really hurts, doesn't it?
Rating:  Summary: Coulter Nails Liberals Review: Don't automatically accept the negative reviews of liberals who say that Treason is dull (are you kidding? It's a riveting pageturner if ever there was one); that the book is badly written (another lie; the book is wonderfully written); that the book is unscholarly (ridiculous; the footnotes documenting everything are astonishing in such a popular book); that it rehashes old arguments (the merit of the book is that it exposes the baseless yet widespread assumptions of the Left); that it's a flash in the pan (well, most books are, including Hillary's, but this book will live on and influence thoughtful minds for years; case in point: Coulter's last book, Slander, still has clout); that it's uncompromising (that it is, refreshingly and deliciously so); and that she (and those who believe she makes a convincing case) are dangerous simpletons (more liberal lies; Coulter documents such liberal tactics and reveals the liberal mindset that thrives on smears, including "Don't read this!" and "Save your money!" Read the book for yourself and decide. You are in for a intellecutal ride-and a treat.
Rating:  Summary: Wow....all I can is.....WOW Review: Ann's finally lost it. Defending McCarthy? Come on! Calling Asians "savage Orientals"? Come one! Carter comitted treason by accepting the Nobel Peace Prize? Come on! This is sad, really. No, more than that, it's sick. Also, Ann knows very well that when a paper prints an op-ed piece, IT IS NOT THE OPINION OF THE PAPER, but the WRITER! She knows this, but quotes papers' op-ed sections as if they are the papers' regular reporting. She must hold her fans in incredible contempt if she thinks they don't understand this. Well, maybe they don't....maybe that's part of what has made her so rich.
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