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Summary: A pleasure to read
Review: Incredibly well researched and documented. Disagree if you like but this ranks as one of the best pieces of investigative journalism ever. Notice that none of the negative reviews ever address the facts. Isn't is funny that the people that are quick to label Ann Coulter as a name caller do it by calling her a name.
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Summary: Allow me to quote one of the "one-star" reviewers...
Review: "No brainer! She's Nuts!, July 5, 2003
Reviewer: A reader from FL USA
A human being can be this simple minded..
A piece of garbage."Please direct your attention to the post created on July 5th by this very informed and articulate reader. These are the kinds of people who give this book one star. I think that reviewer (and others just like him/her) should read very carefully what they are about to post before embaressing themselves and their entire agenda. Having said that, I give it 4 stars. I take one star away for Ann not trying to understand the other side in her writing.
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Summary: Ann v. HiLIARy
Review: I am sure that if you look at all the people giving Ann's book 1 star for being biased and factless. I think you will find that they give HiLIARy's book five stars for the totally accurate portrayal of their delusional fantasy of a presidency!
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Summary: Right Wing Barbie Doll Does It Again
Review: Ann Coulter is not a scholar or a serious political commentator, but rather a celebrity masquarading as such. Her bland good looks, short skirts, and perfect-for-tossing blonde hair keep the yokels spell bound while she runs out the same tired arguments and "facts" that Rush Limbaugh tried to sell people a decade ago. Her writing style is as arrogant and childish as was Limbaugh's. All blustering rhetoric about evil liberals and with little or no analysis; perfectly suited to the illiterate television addicts who eat this stuff up. If it weren't for all those hideous liberals pushing for equality in the sixties Coulter would be writing for fashion or housekeeping magazines. Ironic.
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Summary: Fascism
Review: This book clearly illustrates the greatest danger to American freedom: simple-minded hate-mongering from the extreme right.
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Summary: More shocking than I imagined
Review: I was worried that this book would just be a boring defense of McCarthy, but it's a shocking, well-documented indictment of liberal cluelessness in matters of national security, from their pooh-poohing of the Communist threat, defense and history-rewriting sanitization of high-ranking Soviet spies in liberal administrations (if a certain Democratic President had died just one year earlier, we might have had a Soviet spy as President!), and liberal mythologies based on repetition rather than fact, to the present day. Presented with reams of credible evidence, liberal Presidents, academia, and media ridiculed charges that high-ranking officials were most certainly spies - a fact made embarrasingly clear with the 1995 release of the findings of Project Venona. Oops, you might have missed that if you read the NYT. Due to the obtuseness of the left, many secrets valuable to our national security were ferried to the Soviets. On the way the author roundly skewers the ideological blindness of the media, such as the NYT. Ted Koppel is shown simpering with a Soviet spy who fled to the USSR and afterward helped develop weapons used against our troops in Vietnam, emerging from the interview as clueless as before. The bias and resulting distortion in the NYT is again showcased. This book is especially an important antidote to the skewed images your kids will receive from the media and even their schooling. The truth is more shocking than you could have imagined. What is even more shocking is the refusal of the left to acknowledge the evidence to this day ("suspected spy", "might have been a spy", "believed by the vast right-wing conspiracy to be a spy", etc.).
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Summary: Ann Strikes Agaain
Review: I went into Treason somewhat skeptical. As a conservative, but a free thinker, I'm always loathe to follow the party idealogues. However, Ms. Coulter's new book is incredible. Not wanting to take anything for granted, I checked a few of her sources at the library and found her to be 100% on with her quotes. She seems to have taken care not to take things out of context and has laid bare the true Liberal agenda of the past 60 years. Read the book with an open mind. Regardless of your political perspective, you'll come away with new facts and opinions on the cold war, Reagan, and Joe McCarthy.
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Summary: A surprise - much better then I expected.
Review: It was only a matter of time that someone would deflate the McCarthy myth. After the fall of the Soviet Union and the release of the Venona tapes, many "innocent" victims of McCarthy were shown to be enthusiastic supporters of Stalin. Since the 50s, these supporters of a mass-murdering Hitler-like dictator were spun into "idealists" persecuted by an evil Senator: Joseph McCarthy. Charges of McCarthyism are a standard way Leftist ideologies intimidate critics - until now. The game is over. Was McCarthy a flawed man? Of course! But it wasn't his flaws that brought him down and fueled his critics. Coulter exposes the motives of the Left Wing of the Democratic Party and Left-leaning press. However, she doesn't fully explore the motives of Republicans who abandoned McCarthy. Was it McCarthy's recklessness or excessive drinking? Or was this triage - sacrificing a good soldier for the sake of an important battle with history's most vicious and deadly totalitarian movement? Coulter is too silent on her fellow Republicans. Why were they so disarmed in the intellectual arena? Her analysis is correct but she undercuts the force of her presentation with repeated gratuitous references to Bill Clinton. The seriousness of Communism and the vicious attacks on those fighting Communism are far too serious for these unnecessary analogies to the affairs and actions of a silly man like Bill Clinton. She preaches to the choir when she could win wider support. However, that choir is now armed and ready. There are numerous pithy retorts to standard Leftist propaganda. Leftist should not be lulled by Coulter's loud in-your-face style. Ignore Coulter at your own risk. Coulter attacks Communists, Communist sympathizers, appeasement Democrats, surrender Democrats, anti-anti-Communists, soft-on-Communists Democrats, blind-to-the-Communist threat Democrats, creeping Socialist fellow travelers, etc. Of course these movements have failed. Was it their blatant irrationality and devastation that lead to their failure? Or was it the clear alternative and resolve of the Republicans on the Right? Did people turn away from Communism or turn to Capitalism and liberty? Coulter tries but fails to make a strong case for the latter. The extent of big government today, fully supported by Republicans, would shock Taft, Goldwater, and Republicans of 40-60 years ago. Buy the book for the revelations about the McCarthy and his critics - regardless of your position on the matter. Coulter is setting the stage for future discussions.
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Summary: This book misses the major stories of the Cold War
Review: This book takes a baffling view of American history.
First of all, it argues that Senator McCarthy was a hero.
I'll give one example on how McCarthy is NOT a hero and did NOT help win the Cold War, as the author argues. The McCarthy persecutions completely destroyed the China group of the State Department (by blaming them for 'losing' China). Experts such as John Service (the son of a Christian missionaries who grew up in China) were forced not only from government, but often from the country. Even today, we have not recovered the level of China expertise that we had in the late 1940s. To make a long story short, for 20 years, for more than one generation, the United States lacked China resources in government. (Today, this would be the intelligence equivalent of not having satellites in space). The Korean War and the Vietnam War were fought on China's borders, and were waged, in part, to 'contain' China. We can only imagine the alternate scenarios if the US government had advisors that had known something about China, such as this stunning fact: In 1949, China was disgusted with the USSR as an ally (with good reason), and Mao Zedong reached out to the US, correctly recognizing that China's interests would be much better served by cooperating with the rational and prosperous U.S. [The communists in China had been impressed by the Americans they encountered in WWII. In 1944, for example, a team of U.S. intelligence officers spent a year with the Chinese communists, to see if they could help the U.S. fight Japan. The Dixie Mission. Plus, the USSR had caused the Chinese communists immense problems]. Stalin knew that in 1949 Mao was reaching out to the the U.S. It was his greatest fear, that the US and China would become allies. Thus in 1950 when North Korea approached Stalin, with the idea of attacking the South, Stalin gave the green light, knowing that China would get in the fight (for a variety of reasons) and once Americans and Chinese killed each other on the battlefield, the window of opportunity for US/China reapproachement would close. Stalin was right, and his was aided by the destruction caused by the likes of McCarthy. Without his mad persecutions, which incidentally destroyed the military intelligence officers who were on the Dixie Mission, perhaps we would not have had to wait until 1972 (and two bloody wars) to make peace with China. My overall critique of this book: it misses the main story of the Cold War. The 'heros' of this book did much to create the Cold War, and then grabbed the credit when it ended. PS: To young readers, I highly recommend the movie, 'The Manchurian Candidate.' A not-to-be-missed Cold War classic. PPS: Also to young readers: Don't be mislead by the labels, such as 'liberal' and 'conservative.' Instead, look beneath the labels. Look at history. Be your own judge.
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Summary: Great Book!!!
Review: In TREASON, as in SLANDER, Ann Coulter lays out, point by point, why liberals are such a threat to this country and how weak-kneed, spineless Democrat "leaders" for the past fifty years nearly destroyed the USA. Fortunely for us, writers like Ms. Coulter are exposing the treachery of the left and bringing America back to a position of strength. Thank you, Ann, and I suggest that the topic for your next book is the anti-Americanism that is running so rampantly among the Ivory-tower instructors in our colleges and universities. A GREAT BOOK!!! Buy it!
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