Rating:  Summary: Slander, Treason - modern day Old and New Testaments Review: If you are a die-hard conservative and want a great book that will help affirm your already entrenched beliefs about the evils of liberalism, then this is the book for you. "Treason", along with her earlier equally stinging excoriation of all things liberal - "Slander", Coulter's two companion pieces are the modern-day equivelent of the New Testament and the Old Testament, or of Homer's Illiad and the Odyssey. I assume she will present us with another brilliant indictment of the liberals, and its title will be something along the lines of "Libel" or "Betrayal" or "Treachery" or "Malice" or some other brilliantly unpredictable synonym which only a great literary and political scholar like Coulter could come up with. And with her 3rd installment of "liberals bad, conservatives good" treatise, we conservatives will have a great literary trilogy which we can call our own, to rival the "Star Wars", "Lord of the Rings" and "Pipi Longstocking" series. You go girl.
Rating:  Summary: Howlers. Review: Ann Coulter once again shows the world that she is, indeed, insane.Well that, or she is very good at manipulating her image. She simultaneously presents a rabid, fundamentalist view that appeals to the more base instincts of the intellectually challenged Right Wing, which also must be read by real intellectuals. She provides a perfect picture of martyrdom and hysteria, painting a picture of the evils the left has perpetrated throughout history, while disregarding the fact that the left is almost always correct. It's safe to say that in 40 years people will remember Coulter. Not for being pretty. Not for being brilliant. Not for being correct. She will be remembered for being among the last bastions of rabid intolerance that our nation tries so hard to shake free.
Rating:  Summary: Truth Justice and the American way Review: I love Ann. The communi... liberals don't know how to deal with a smart, beautiful, and patriotic woman. Keep up the good work Ann. P.S. Sales Rank Ann's book #2 Hillary #10
Rating:  Summary: It's about time. Review: Ann hit's the left hard with its worst enemy the truth.
Rating:  Summary: Great book if you have an open mind Review: Well, seeing all the negative one-star short "reviews" by these liberals whose main concern is that this book gets a low star rating proves exactly what Ann is talking about in her book. Liberals love to dampen the truth if it's not in their favor and they'll do anything they can to do so--legally/illegally, morally/imorally. To them it doesn't matter--the end justifies the means. The liberals are religously active in posting these stupid three-line reviews that talk nothing about the book, but only critize, insult, and make fun of Ann and other conservatives. I hope that they will stop being so sensitive in their politics and have an open mind for a change. At least read the book or don't post anything at all!! I have read Ann's book and I found it to be immensly helpful! It's a very good set-straigh historical book with commentary. And she makes it very interesting with her wit and sarcasm. It's a great book! I don't understand why the liberals are so uptight and afraid of Ann and her book!?
Rating:  Summary: Save us all... Review: from radical extremists of any stripe. This book demonstrates how one of that ilk will cynically bend, distort, and even lie to promote her agenda. Coulter is on the brink of joining history's select club of all-time-greatest crackpots with this one. Unfortunately, there are many who won't exercise their powers of critical thinking and will swallow it hook, line, and sinker. Our country's spirit is sullied whenever it encourages demagogues like this one.
Rating:  Summary: A screw loose? Review: This book is either a con job by Ann Coulter to come off as the vilest person on earth (and in the process help her rake in even more money, since there's no such thing as bad publicity) or she's a mentally unbalanced sociopath. I happen to think it's the latter. Her assertion that the opinions of liberals--who, unlike self-centered conservatives, are for the common good--is not only nutty but outrageous.
Rating:  Summary: Facts and Rants Review: While 80% of the book is filled with the facts and the references to the varios sources, the rest 20% are Coulter's remarks about the true character of the liberals. I might agree with some of her conclusions, however her rants while witty were distracting and annoying. I can rant myself so much better. From a book like this I'd rather get organized facts and sources - only. Hence - four stars. I understand that some might disagree - for many people Coulter's caustic wit is the main attraction of the show, information being the distant second. Which is not so bad - everyone can find something interesting. Except for the former communists. For quite a simple reason. It just so happens that McCarthy was right. American Government was infiltrated by the Communist spies on an unprecedented scale indeed. While the evidence that was presented by MacCarthy himself was largely dismissed by people who see no evil in anything with a red star on it, a great deal of hard evidence have been made available lately - from Venona project to the admissions of the former spy-handlers from the former USSR. Of course, you wont read about it in the New York Times. so I guess, if you are intrested in finding out what was happening then - you have to buy this book. (Look at it this way - Coulter's book is much cheaper then NYT in terms of a price per unit of information).
Rating:  Summary: About what you'd expect - only less. Review: I have always had the suspicion that the far right is a tool of the far left - after skimming (okay, full disclosure: I couldn't read the whole damn thing) this "book," I know now I'm correct.
Rating:  Summary: Half-truths and poor research passed off as fact Review: Wow. This book is even worse than Slander. Coulter shows once again why she is an embarressment to "history". Attempting to cast fanatics like MacCarthy as sympathetic misunderstood "patriots", Coulter twists the few historical facts she includes and omits the rest. People who dearly want Coulter's version of the past to be true are willing to ignore factual evidence, and that is exactly what Coulter counts upon.
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