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Summary: Thought-provoking but also disturbing pulp history
Review: It's hard to hate a book that bashes communism. So I am less critical of "Treason" than I might be, but less admiring of it than I could have been.
Meaning no disrespect, but one appreciates Ann Coulter's new book more if one's knowledge of 20th century history is limited to Elvis Presley. For example, persons who thought they knew something about 20th century history will be astonished to learn from Coulter that the Cuban Missile Crisis, which resulted in the Soviet Union withdrawing its nuclear missiles from Cuba, was a humiliating defeat for America.
History is not kind to the thesis of Coulter's book. Take Coulter's vilification of Harry Truman for being soft on communism. That is hard to reconcile with the Truman Doctrine. That doctrine arose when communist insurgencies threatened Greece and Turkey. Truman went to the isolationist Republican Congress and persuaded it to supply $400,000,000 in aid to those countries. In so doing, Truman announced that America would "support free peoples" against "attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure." He declared America's material support of free peoples "against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes." Not to mention that even before the announcement of the Truman Doctrine, Truman sent a naval battle group to the Mediterranean to challenge Soviet aggression there.
As much as Coulter reviles Truman, even calling him a "dupe of the communists", it is strange that Condoleeza Rice told Time Magazine that she considered Truman to be the man of the last century. But what does Condoleeza Rice know? She is only Bush's National Security Advisor. Coulter is a lawyer. Never mind that Truman created the CIA and the National Security Agency and fought the Korean War.
Speaking of the Korean War, Coulter excoriates Truman for supposedly burdening Douglas MacArthur with politically-based constraints that kept him from winning the war, then relieving him of command. MacArthur was a great man, and his landing at Inchon was brilliant, but he was also a tired man. When he was relieved, his troops were demoralized and south of Seoul. Matthew Ridgeway took over, energized the troops, re-took Seoul, and pushed above the 38th parallel.
Just as Coulter reviles Truman, she effuses praise on Joseph McCarthy. It's too bad that Coulter didn't write in the 1950's. If iconic Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower had read her book, maybe he would have despised McCarthy less.
On the subject of McCarthy, Coulter points to the recently de-classified Venona cable interceptions to show that some of the persons that McCarthy accused were indeed Soviet spies. To Coulter, this means that McCarthy was a Great Man, as opposed to proof of the old adage that sometimes even a blind squirrel finds a nut. Even her revered Richard Nixon distanced himself from McCarthy's tactics, in 1960 saying that it was vital to use a rifle instead of a shotgun to ferret out communists.
Coulter is adroit at omission. She showcases the popularity of McCarthy by citing a Gallup poll that showed that Americans were 50 percent pro-McCarthy and 29 percent con. She claims only the nasty, effete liberals in the media and Congress opposed McCarthy. She apparently did not know of a Gallup poll taken only six months later, after the Army-McCarthy hearings, that showed a dramatic reversal in McCarthy's popularity: 35 percent pro and 45 percent con.
As an aside, Coulter castigates historians of the McCarthy era for relying on secondary sources rather than original sources, as expressed in their footnotes. Naturally, many readers at this point in the book will flip back to Coulter's own footnotes to discover -- well, I won't spoil the surprise.
To her credit, Coulter is persuasive in attributing the fall of the Soviet empire to Ronald Reagan, but I can't credit her claim that Reagan won the Cold War by himself. There were many factors, including the Soviet Union's systemic economic vulnerability and the fortunate presence of a President with the will and intelligence to exploit it. The Reagan administration might have benefited from a high-level Soviet defector who described the economic vulnerability of the Soviet Union. Histories and memoirs will one day reveal whether this influenced Reagan's policy.
On a personal level, what I find most disturbing in Coulter's book is her statement "Liberals choose Man. Conservatives choose God." She reiterates this point in her conclusion: "Conservaties believe man was created in God's image; liberals believe they are God." I have lived among Christians all my life. I was even a Christian worker in China for two years. I have known many Christians who were liberals. I have known pastors who were raging liberals. Perhaps the rejoinder is that they were not real Christians. But if the quality of one's walk with God is what really counts, I must say that among all the Christians I have known, only two were Christ-like. One was a seminary professor and the other was a secretary from Brazil. And I could not tell you their political orientation -- conservative or liberal -- because those labels simply did not attach to them in any visible, important way. This is something that Ms. Coulter should pause to consider as she provokes a jihad against liberalism.
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Summary: Giving blondes a bad name again ...sigh.....
Review: OK, this book is perfect if you are really into faux (oops, I mean FOX) news and Rush LImbaugh and the National Enquirer. The Republican party has skidded so far to the right that I think in today's coinage, Richard Nixon would have been a Democrat. One can hope that this nonsense being spouted by the GOP's "blonde bombshell" will spur more educated Republicans to vote for Howard Dean in 2004.
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Summary: lies and nonsense
Review: terrible waste of money and time. no sane person would read this book unless curious about mental illness
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Summary: Watch Fox News Instead
Review: I can't understand why people like Coulter are even on the TV and writing books. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: A memorable "telebimbo"
Review: Ann Coulter may write books and newspaper columns, but she is wholly incapable of defending her extremist, Nazi viewpoint in person. She appears on many news programs and laughs off all criticisms of her writings and refuses to further explain her viewpoint. This woman is an insane right-wing fascist that is doing nothing more than making conervatives appear in a true light. Every other word out of this woman's mouth is "liberal". She confines her life's work to insulting and trying to discredit liberals and ultimately descredits the right-wing. Ann Coulter will go down in history alongside the names of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell as a dangerous right-wing conservative that worked to destroy freedom of speech and freedom of thought. One star is too high of a rating for this piece of right-wing trash.
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Summary: What's next?
Review: "Where do you go next? Holocaust denier? Slavery defender?" (Quoting David Brock of Coulter).
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Summary: Treason?
Review: It is very hard to believe anything Miss Coulter writes. She sees everything through her right wing radical eyes.
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Summary: The author
Review: Ann Coulter wears too much makeup during televised interviews, and may suffer from an over-eagerness to indulge in caffeinated beverages. Think water, Ann. I'd still plant a kiss on her either way, and be delighted to converse on a range of topics. Her books and debating skills are quite excellent, except for allowing Alan Colmes and Chris Matthews to back her into a corner about naming current traitors in America. My gratitude to the author of Treason for calling liars liars and dredging up history to resurrect the reputation of just one of the early victims brought down by the frightening people who smugly inhabit the left-wing of politics on this planet. It's comforting to know that serious and talented people are engaging the enemy.
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Summary: Unpleasant Facts Revealed
Review: Ann Coulters'nails-on-chalkboard approach to political discourse has the lefties in a tizzy. She says nasty things about them but it's ironic because that is exactly what they have been doing for 50 years. From Bush to Bush to Reagan to Nixon and beyond it has been nothing but invective and attack - both vicious and personal. I laugh now when they get a little of their own, how they howl. Earlier this year President Bush was being compared to Hitler for entry into the Iraq war, a grotesque calumny repeated by the media, now they demand Ann Coulter apologize to Democrats who were actually Communist spies, for calling them traitors. The leftist media, including the New York Times apologized for Communist dictatorships for decades - research the NYT op-ed pieces for the past 5 decades - Coulter obviously did. Communism was the greatest crime against humanity in the 20th century, case closed. Indeed, Coulter nails the Times in their most recent example of dumb bunny naivete towards Communist dictatorships: the Times expressed shock and disbelief when the North Koreans admitted they never abided by the 1994 "peace" deal they had signed with President Clinton. The Times said the revelation "stunned the world" which meant their little world of leftist apologists and useful idiots, because the rest of the world knew that the Communists have been duping the West since 1917, and have always lied as a precautionary measure. Many of the reviewers here did not read the book and it is unfortunate because this is not a platform for chat. Their lack of knowledge is apparent because they cannot even refute her arguments but only continue the ad hominen attack. To the ever sheepish faces of the left, the proof of the Communist influence in previous US administrations is now incontrovertible. Ann Coulter names names of these Communist spies and unfortunately they are all Democrats: Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Laurance Duggan at the State Department, Lauchlin Currie (who worked directly for FDR, Frank Coe in the IMF, Solomon Adler in Treasury, Duncan Lee of the OSS predecessor to the CIA, and for laughs throw in Klaus Fuchs, David Greenglass and the Rosenbergs. The book is an eye opener - not to the fact that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were riddled with Communism, that was known and told to the world by Joe McCarthy, but that so few people know these things today, including the reviewers on this site. The revelation of the Venona Project in 1995 (the breaking of the Soviet code and the US intelligence's ability to read Soviet cables from the 1940's) has added much truth to the authors main argument that Joe McCarthy was correct in his charge that the Roosevelt-Truman government was riddled with spies. It is now impossible to deny that the Soviet Union was working with Americans high up in the Democratic Administrations in the 40's and 50's. FDR had Hiss as an advisor when he met Stalin at Yalta and proceeded to give away Eastern Europe - enslaving those people in misery for decades. White was undersecretary of the Treasury and assisted the Soviets in fleecing what remained in post war Europe. It was despicable - and very rarely heard. Maybe McCarthy's tactics were aggressive or maybe not - when compared with the enormity of the crimes that the Communists had committed and would commit, one can argue that McCarthy did not do enough. Coulter then cites how the liberal-left called McCarthy a homosexual in order to discredit him, an interesting politically incorrect anachronism! How many people did the Communists murder, how many enslaved, tortured or imprisoned? Too numerous to count. However - up until Reagan tore down the Wall the Communists were defended as moral equivalents to the US. Coulter smacks the age addled Norman Mailer for hypocritically saying he thought the Soviet Union was "endlessly hollow" when the evil empire finally fell. Yet his earlier writings only spoke wonders of the Soviet Union even claiming the most passionate Roman Catholic service he had ever witnessed was when he visited the Soviet Union. What a clown! President Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy knew the truths about Communism and that is why Bobby asked Joe McCarthy to be godfather to his daughter, Kathleen (Kennedy Townsend). An unfortunate fact now for Kathleen, but in reality her father felt that McCarthy was fighting the good fight against a real threat to world peace. Anyone reading this review that does not know who Walter Duranty is can thank the leftist media, their leftist university professors and their inadequate school textbooks. He made Jayson Blair look like Mother Teresa. As a reporter for the NY Times in the 1930's he deceitfully claimed the Ukrainians were healthy and vibrant when Stalin, to subjugate the Ukraine, imposed a massive famine that killed millions of people. Later, Duranty did acknowledge his deceit. The New York Times is guilty of one of the greatest crimes in human history. Ann Coulter ties in the perennial inclination of Democrats to blame America first with the current Iraq war. This time people like Senators Kerry and Feinstein cynically voted for the war as they read the polls, but then immediately positioned themselves in the anti-war camp if it became a disaster. It was political and cowardly and they are guilty of it. The Democrats caterwauled loudly that our relationship with the Germans and French is in crisis - too bad Coulter says, we'll weep for them. Shrill? Yes. Her message a little exaggerated - perhaps. But definitely worth the read to learn the ugly facts that the left would rather not have you learn.
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Summary: Any thinking American Should and will be Insulted
Review: Just suffered through this piece of fiction. Incredible obfuscation. Could Ann be any more evasive? From what I recall of history, Ann's account is full of half-truths, convenient selective memory, and historical revisionism. Any thinking American should and will be insulted. Her facial expression on the cover says it all. Ann has grandiose goals for the future. Read her book and see if this elitist/ actress/ anti-semite (do the research) will lead America down the path to secular wasteland. I thought she was smart too, but then I read the book.
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