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Summary: Mein Kampf????
Review: Reminded me of Adolphs book. To much hate is not a good thing darlin. Why do you have so much anger? This book was not entertaining to me and I put it down after a few chapters. If your into anger and blameing everything on Democrats than read it. Most of us in this country are moderates. Neither to far to the right or left. I find the war between the far left and far right to be troublesome.
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Summary: Bizarre
Review: This book is bizarre, she is bizarre, and embarassing to conservatives everywhere. This book is a bigoted mess. She has no understanding and empathy for anything outside of her narrow world. She either needs therapy or is "playing" to the fringe right for the money.
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Summary: Didn't read it, but that title ...
Review: As a Vietnam vet who served his country for 4 years and his community (as a volunteer for a public agency aiding the mentally disabled) for years afterword, I am sick unto death of being called a "treasonous liberal" for being in favor of a balanced budget, preservation of natural resources, reluctance to go to war, expanded health care, to name a few of my "left wing" ideals.From Webster's Unabridged: Liberal: One who advocates greater freedom of thought or action Conservative: Tending to preserve old institutions, methods, customs, and the like. The terms are not opposites! They are not about socialism, capitalism, "left" or "right", pro- or anti- anything. If we are to take a book seriously, the debate has to contain words of meaning. "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the
manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words,
you can control the people who must use the words."
(Philip K. Dick)
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Summary: Love is the answer
Review: Well, I hate this book. I think the logic in it is deeply flawed and narrow. I think that even when she has good historical points she's privy to 20-20 hindsight and is unable (or refuses) to digest the many external variables that effected historical events. But more importantly, I'm very concerned about the corrosive nature of this kind of book on the country. I'm worried that there is a growing group on the far-right of the spectrum, perhaps 10 million people, who read this like gospel and thus live in a sort of dream-reality. It's a very unhealthy trend. She constantly says that her adversary is 'evil'. I believe Evil exists. Stalin was evil. To say that it's a common trait is an irresponsible and incendiary practice. I don't think she can be discredited, because I'm not sure she is able to feel any shame at being proven wrong. She'll refuse to accept it and just keep on going. And of course she has her right to freedom of speech. I only hope the country can withstand her.
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Summary: Fact filled and intriguing
Review: Ann Coulter doesn't mind saying what she thinks. In this book she applies her spin to the political history of the McCarthy era. Her points are explained logically with concise details of history as she percieves it. This book certainly has a spin to it, but it also inspires thought and prodded me into doing a bit more research. I enjoy books that take a stance that is contrary to popular opinion and value them for inspiring thought and debate. This book is certainly capable of doing that and is a great alternative view for anyone interested in political history. It is best read with an open mind. Those with pre-formed opinions will either blindly love or hate this book depending on where their beliefs lie.
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Summary: Go get em Ann
Review: I've read all of Ann's books and she does a great job of keeping the material flowing while throwing in some humor. I sometimes think that even though alot of people agree with what she says, the fact that she kinda of comes of with an in your face attitude might make her a bit much to swallow. I am neither a conservative or a liberal as I share both sides views on certain things and I can say that I definately reccomend this book.
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Summary: Likely to be surprisingly useful
Review: There was a book I had which was called "Counterexamples in Algebraic Topology". Good grief, what a wonderful (though arduous) way to learn mathematics! The way it happened in that book was to see a series of propositions (on the whole, fairly simple), and to chew through the detail regarding the falsification of the arguments. A sort of inside out learning process. I can see the potential here. For people who teach and study history, this book is going to be invaluable. Taking each of the false premises, starting with the manifest destiny stuff and moving outwards to Vietnam and the present war, this is a way of getting lazy but well intentioned folks to hunt through archives, papers, and thesis (plural) and really get to know the history of America. There is a ever more present reason to understand clearly, what's more to STUDY in a disciplined way, what it means to be living there, that is, until the Prince of Peace returns. Until then....
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Summary: This book is a joke...
Review: I am neither liberal nor conservative, democrat nor republican. I am an independent voter in a country where people are way too quick to jump onto one bandwagon or another, without even knowing what the parties stand for. For example, did you know you can be against abortion and not Republican?? Yes it's true! Or you can be for affirmitive action and not Democratic! Anyway, I am just disgusted by the lame reviews I see all over this site. Conservatives give all Liberal books a 1 star without even reading it and vice versa. So I am neither one nor the other and I read A LOT of books, from very far left authors like Micheal Moore to very far right authers like Ann Coutler. All that being said... this book is terrible. The problem is not her point of view, you expect that. The problem is that she misquotes, takes quotes COMPLETELY out of context, uses a TON of endnotes that no one is going to bother to read at the end of her book (which leaves the reader believing things to be a way in which they are not) and as far as I can see, she just plain makes stuff up. There isn't much fact in her book at all, it's just liberal bashing. I've read her other book and it was equally as bad. This individual has no business writing books. It's sad. Save your money.
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Summary: It really was a good attempt, but...
Review: She made a good attempt with this book and I found some of it interesting when I read it, but unfortunately, she falls flat on her face. Let me start with what everyone is looking for: McCarthy. She makes the claim that nobody he named (and/or bumped off from their job) was innocent. This is incorrect. One example is Theodore Kaghan, a Public Affairs Officer in the United States High Commission for Germany who McCarthy cost him his job. In fact, he was involved in no subversive or Communist activity. Another is Millard Tydings, Senator from Maryland. After being in charge of invesigating McCarthy, Tydings came under attack by McCarthy in his next election. McCarthy sunk Tydings mainly by showing a doctored photo of him to make it look as if he was having an intimiate conversation with Communist leader Earl Broder. She also conveniently skips by episodes such as his sliming of John Phillip Jessup and his fraudulent defense of Nazi war criminals in the Malmedy Hearings. I will have more to post later, but if you want a good read on McCarthy, see The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate by Robert Griffith.
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Summary: Could not put in down!!!!!
Review: I read Ann Coulter's book in about 2 or 3 days. I found her book to be thought provoking, revealing and at points, hysterically funny. Not only did her book confirm what I had been thinking and saying for years with cold hard facts and detailed history, but it also taught me a lot of history that I was not aware of. With over 40 pages of references, this is a very well researched book. Ann Coulter shows us why she graduated at the top of her class, she obviously put a lot of effort into this book and it shows. Her wit and sarcasm also shines through in this book. She has a gift of expressing serious ideas in a way that sometimes is just downright hysterical. There are passages that made me laugh till I cried. Some say her style alienates a lot of liberals, but even so, her exposure of the truth alienates liberals all the same. Having a dictionary close by won't hurt when reading this book, either. She uses some 2 dollar words and is very eloquent. I liked this book so much that I have since purchased her audiobook, "Slander".
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