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Summary: Fun to read but a failure as revisionist history.
Review: Ann Coulter is one of the reasons we watch cable talk shows at night, where she often makes the rounds. She is smart, witty and good to look at. Sure, she has a nasty side, which can either make you cringe or secretly relish because she is willing to forego politcal correctness to express views many of us believe in but would never dare say in public. If you like this Ann Coulter you will love this book. Ann is at her best dealing with the contemporary scene, where she exposes the foolishness of political celebs and misguided, opportunistic liberal politicans. However, as revisionist history this book is not convincing. When discussing the Truman administration the book reads like a cranky political tract from that era. Here she ressurects the canards of the old China Lobby that China was lost to Communism because the State Department was infiltrated by Communist agents and sympathizers. You have to believe that Owen Lattimore was more responsible for the loss of China than Chiang Kai-shek and his corrupt Kuomintang regime. Ann Coulter also fails in her attempt to revise the reputation of Senator Joe McCarthy. She glosses over many of McCarthy's more outrages and damaging statements and actions and fails to provide sufficient evidence that he was an effective anticommunist. McCarthy and his career is often oversimplified by both his detractors and supporters. The McCarthy era is worth exploring. But the reader should go elsewhere to get a more balanced view of the man and his movement. The Thomas Reeves biography is still in print and avoids the bias of either the classic Rovere bio or Ann Coulter's book.
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Summary: Commies under the bed!
Review: This book is aimed at people who think there are still commies under the bed, even today! Annie does a great service for the right wing by distracting her readers from the real issues. You wouldn't know from this book that there is a big difference between a totalitarian state -- which tells you where to live, how to work, even what to think -- and the social safety net, which is a democratic society's decision, through the ballot box, to protect vulnerable groups like seniors. But Annie's readers are so busy fighting the Cold War that they don't stop to wonder whether the Bushies are really right to dismantle social services, for example by privatizing Social Security or Medicare.
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Summary: The more you feed the fascists, the fatter they get
Review: Book-like object, constructed of paper and ink. Oh, and it appears to be tasty kibble for the bloated egos and twisted souls of the American right. Why 5 stars? Why not? Coulter's fans should not be provoked ... these are dangerously angry people. Just humor them.
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Summary: This is entertainment...
Review: . . . not social or political science. Ann Coulter makes money from getting people angry or preaching to the converted. As soon as equinimity or reason enter the picture, these kinds of hollywood entertainers must stir it up, otherwise they won't make a lot of money. It doesn't matter if you hate or like Ann Coulter. She will make money fueling those negative emotions either way.
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Summary: Even conservatives think it's trash
Review: Honest conservatives are saying that "Treason" is trash. Hop on Google and read what ultra-right-winger David Horowitz (the guy who hired Coulter when National Review wouldn't print her idiocy) says about it: "It is distressing when someone you admire gives credibility to liberal attacks. But that, unfortunately, is what this book has done." Here's what popular conservative Andrew Sullivan says about it: "To admit the complexity of political discourse would immediately require Coulter to think, explain, argue. But why bother when you can earn millions insulting?" And: "By defending the tactics of Joe McCarthy, she actually plays directly into the hands of the left." Daniel Borchers of Citizens for Principled Conservatism says, "The absurdity of Coulter's conclusions and her commentary should relegate her to the margins of political discourse." And Spinsanity (a non-ideological media criticism site) says, "Ann Coulter has driven the national discourse to a new low ... Coulter's case relies in large part on irrational rhetoric and pervasive factual errors and deceptions." And I don't much care for it myself, either. But Coulter is an extremist, and she appeals to other extremists. When a person becomes an extremist they decide they "have the answer" and close their minds to the possibility that they might be wrong and to all differing viewpoints. Few ever recover. Coulter will continue to put out her screeds and her followers will continue to follow, but luckily her rants will not be taken seriously by the vast majority.
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Summary: Makes you think
Review: If you are closed-minded or have no sense of logic than you will be lost reading this book. Ann is amazing. I bought the audio CD and it was refreshing to have the author do the reading. This book is extremely well researched and is a great history refresher while challenging your thinking. I can't wait to have my next discussion with my liberal friends!
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Summary: The Miseducation of a recovering liberal
Review: This book has been filled with historical truths that I have never heard about. In fact, they were so far right from what I had been taught in my history classes that I had to research the claims in this book. I was floored when every one of the claims were supported. For example, I still believed that the Rosenbergs were innocent! Interestingly enough, 60 minutes ran a story of the brother of Ethel Rosenberg the same evening that I was reading this in Treason. I could not believe that they admitted that evidence had proven that Julius Rosenberg was a spy! This is cutting edge stuff! Color Me Liberal No More!
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Summary: Ann Hits a Home Run Again
Review: Once again, Ann Coulter manages to draw the wrath of liberals with her sharp-witted tongue. Only this time, she has their blood boiling before they even read the first word in the book! This is a very informative, well documented, and well-written "textbook" that debunks the misinformation that we have been fed by the mainstream media and the Democrat spin machine concerning the infiltration of Soviet agents in this country. This book is an absolute "Must Read" for anyone desiring to finally hear the other side (and the well documented truth) of the McCarthy era.
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Summary: people call this book accurate?
Review: I'm a political moderate and was actually interested in reading this to understand the perspective of the far right wing. Unfortunately, I'm also a history teacher. So after skimming this book for a few hours, I noticed the following gaffes: Dean Acheson was not Secretary of State in 1946. He was the Under Secretary of State. He became Secretary of State in 1949. US forces never crossed the Yalu River during the Korean War. The Yalu River separates North Korea from China. As they grew closer to it, China entered the war out of fear the US would cross it and invade China. Actual quote from the book: "When the United States made an alliance with mad mullahs in Afghanistan against the U.S.S.R., no sensible American would go sign up with the Taliban." Fact: the Taliban was formed in 1994, after the USSR withdrew from Afghanistan. What the hell is this? I'd flunk an eleventh grader who turned this in as a term paper. Doesn't anyone check facts anymore? There are six or seven other major falsehoods in this book which could have been easily identified with a few hours at the library, plus leaps of logic which defy any rational analysis. And John F. Kennedy a traitor? Whether you like his politics or not, he was injured in combat and awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal and the Purple Heart.
This is just awful writing, awful journalism, awful fact checking by a woman with what appear to be some mental problems.
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Summary: KNOCKOUT PUNCH TO THE LEFT'S DECEPTION
Review: Coulter makes a major contribution to the intellectual rearming of the right. In one book she summarizes what you will not hear in the classroom or on the major networks. She reminds us of the massive deception used to deflect later public opinion away from the core facts that the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss , Harry Dexter White and a host of other senior nuclear scientists and government officials were active agents of communism at the time Stalin and Mao were liquidation 30-40 million innocent civilians. If she seems angry to some of the leftists then perhaps they should consider how they would respond to those who had protected these butchers of tens of millions of innocents. Coulter avoids the shrill whine of the left while delivering a deadly broadside. A great read.
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