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Summary: Encourage conservatives to read.
Review: Everybody knows that Ann Coulter is a Neocon propagandist who is completely full of herself. However, I think that any book which encourages uneducated people to read is a good idea.
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Summary: Treason Against History
Review: The beauty of this country is that the First Amendment allows even Ann Coulter to lie about history. Never mind whether you are liberal and feel offended that she libels (or slanders when she says it aloud--a nice twist on her previous book title) so many people. What is truly offensive is how she twists the facts and twists history to make a point that no serious historian would even entertain: that Joseph McCarthy was truly committed to the anti-communist crusade, found any real communists, or did anything heroic in the process. Ms. Coulter would rather not ponder that McCarthy went after the Army only because it had offended his two aides, Roy Cohn and David Schine, or that he was guilty of promoting the kind of guilt by association in which Ms. Coulter likewise engages. Indeed, it hardly requires an armchair psychologist to ponder that Ms. Coulter's self-loathing is apparent: she is trying to justify her own actions by justifying one of the truly despicable people in American history. I hope that anyone who feels that she is accurate will pick up a history book and try to learn something. It is just this kind of acceptance of whatever any propagandist like Coulter chooses to write that made it possible for someone like McCarthy to frighten so many Americans--and, indeed, for those like Stalin and Mao to abuse their people, too. While you are at it, check out how Al Franken even demonstrates that Coulter lies about him, her age, and her research.
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Summary: Consider the source
Review: Has anyone else noticed that the leftist anti-America gang is loading up the user reviews with nothing but ad hominem nonsense for all of the conservative books (all best sellers mind you). The liberal agenda has everyone so brainwashed that they no longer feel compelled to think and formulate honest arguments for their ludicrous positions so they just hurl insults and then try to make this book appear that it only rated two or three stars. Unlike their unkind remarks, Ann happens use facts to back up all of her assertions. In case you've forgotten, a fact is something that has actual existence.
When you read this book, you will see why they resort to insults - they have no logical reason to hold their opinions, only hatred. This is a five star book from start to finish. When reading user's reviews, please consider the source.
While you're at it, pick up a copy of one of the books on the Venona Papers - you'll see first hand that Ann is correct!
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Summary: NO FACTS, ALL LIES
Review: I'm in the middle of reading this book and I can't believe how "certain people" can actually believe a word in this book. Those who believe anything that is written in this book just like Coulter have no facts to back up their opinions. I'm a journalism major in college and one of the first things we are taught is ALWAYS use facts NEVER write your opinion WITHOUT the use of facts. Facts can never be aruged. You want to talk about the cold war and McCarthy? Fine. Republicans loved McCarthy at first. FACT. He on the older hand was not the sharpest tool in the shed. He merely sought to make a name for himself. FACT. At first we went after liberal democrats and the reps. loved him. You would see various politicans have their photo taken with him. They had very high praise for him. FACT. Then McCarthy bit the hand that fed him. He started to attck republicans too! As soon as that happened the republicans turned their backs on him. FACT. McCarthy was a drunk. FACT. The republicans did not like it once he started going after them. McCarthy would make up numbers about how many communist there are. FACT. He often just settled on saying "many". FACT. I'm not a democrat, so don't think I'm bashing this book because of my political views. I'm an Independent who has no loyalty to either party, but, I don't appreciate ignorance. If you're going to write a book I would like it if the author (whoever it may be) would check the FACTS.
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Summary: Very Important, World View Changing Book
Review: Extremely informative book about things that went on before most of us were sentient or even
born. Joe McCarthy is an epitaph to many but it appears that the winners (i.e., some extreme
liberals) were until now exclusively writing the history. If McCarthy was so bad why was he
JFK's child's Godfather? The most interesting part of the book deals with the Vanona Project which was only recently
unclassified and then only in part. This US Intelligence project broke the Russian KGB&Mlitary
code and decoded many USSR cables during WW2 and thereafter. See other books on that
project and be convinced yourself of its authenticity. When the results of those cable translations
are coupled with the opening of many KGB secret files in Moscow you reach only one
conclusion: McCarthy was right and hundreds of people in key positions in the Roosevelt and
Truman Administrations were active, seditious Communists. Coulter lays this infamy out very
concisely and cogently. Her is best zinger (and her zingers are why the left hates her so much) is that Truman was as
supportive of the Marshal Plan (without aid to the Soviet satellite countries) as Clinton was
of Welfare Reform. If you don't get the irony of this statement then you really need this book as
well as an honest summary of the Clinton White House.
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Summary: Excellent piece of literature!
Review: Anne Coulter's spiritual memoir -- disguised as a deconstructionist parable of post-feminist suburbia -- perfectly depicts not only her own moral impasse, but also that of the American middle class during the mid-1990s. 'Annie' -- desperately trying to cling to the archaic values of a bygone era, and totally unprepared for the unbridled optimism of the coming dot-com boom -- finds herself at odds not only with her family, but also with her society, and even herself. Her steadfast refusal to conform to the social order, by wearing her prep school sweater even whilst performing auto-mechanics, is a not-too-thinly-veiled representation of her increasing love for Evangelical Christianity in terms of marital infidelity. With her family and neighborhood embroiled in fear and chaos by the serial killing spree of the allegorical "Liberals" and "Conservatives", she discovers that that the only other person she can ultimately turn to for solace is her Marxist black boyfriend. LaCephalus, the typical Coulter hero, is overeducated for his destiny, torn between sex and pining-for-marriage on the one hand and, on the other, a longing to engage in the realm of ideas and the larger social order. By the end of junior college, following his father's attempted suicide, LaCephalus chooses to convert to Orthodox Judaism. This initially devastates Annie, but she eventually comes to realize that his religious nonconformity is of the same spiritual fabric as her social iconoclasm. It is not without accident that, in the end, all but one of the book's secular questions are answered: Coulter is intentionally ambiguous as to whether or not "Annie" chooses to stop wearing the prep school sweater. Clearly, Coulter's -- and American society's -- spiritual journey is far from over.
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Summary: Whys is Ann Coulter Ridiculous?
Review: Her last book was pretty bad, now she's at it again. In her latest book Ann tries to stir up some juicy arguements against the left wing, which would be just fine if any of them made sense. No one should read her work, it's completely ridiculous and false. It is a shame that someone like her has an influence on the people of this country. She should be ashamed of herself.
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Summary: Is there any "fact" in this book that is accurate?
Review: Nothing Coulter says about the Venona project, including allegations about Soviet agents inside the U.S. Government, should not be taken at face value. There were some 200 agents and CONTACTS (like Walter Lippman, not the same as an agent) listed among the Venona intercepts. To get the real story, try the NSA web site: http://www.nsa.gov/docs/venona/. The really scandalous story is the infiltration of Soviets agents into the Manhattan project. Some of the Soviet CONTACTS may have thought they were aiding a WWII ally: remember, all the intercepts were between 1942-45.
The same cannot be said of the America Firsters who were actively working with Nazi agents to prevent American entry into the war. These of course were mostly conservatives and so don't fit into Coulter's pantheon of traiters -- by which she means, anyone who disagrees with her.
Her history of the Cold War is equally faulty. Every president from Truman to Bush Sr. followed a policy of containment, which ultimately worked.
As to those liberal traitors, does she mean Harry Truman, who founded NATO to resist communism and established the Truman Doctrine to defend Greece and Turkey from the USSR? Or was it Kennedy, who faced down Kruschev over Berlin and Soviet missiles in Cuba?
There's nothing in this book that can be trusted, despite the liberal (and misleading) use of end notes.
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Summary: Telling history the right way
Review: Whether it be the cold war, fighting communism within our own government, or the civil rights issue, Democrats have much to gain by obscuring the true history. Ann tells us the story of Joe McCarthy that the left is afraid of you hearing. She makes the case that when it comes to patriotism and defending America, liberals are quick to embrace the other side. An excellent follow-up to her book "Bias", "Treason" further demonstrates the stranglehold the Democratic Party has on the mainstream media. Ann's critics are quick to silence her because she is telling a very uncomfortable truth (unless, of course, you're a conservative...in which case her book will help vindicate you). Read the venom that accompanies the one-star reviews of this book. They are typically filled with insults, and are from people who despise conservative viewpoints. Such people FEAR you reading this book, which is all the more reason to read it.
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Summary: In search of truth - but please be balanced (revised review)
Review: One thing Anne does in this book is reveal for the first time the records of the McCarthy Hearings and the other group, yes, the House UnAmerican Activities Committee preceded McCarthy. Because of the myth surrounding McCarthy and the angst against what he did by most who were effected by him, there is a lot of misinformation about him and what he attempted to do. This is an eye-opening account of those days compared with todays opposition by those in Hollywood to the Iraq war and the war on terrorism. Anne has facts and quotes and footnotes to back up her information. It is well researched. Can we get to a true dialog without rhetoric from either side? War is not just, yet do we ever not fight? She tells of those who complain about fighting who punch camera men in the face to protect themselves. Is that not war, in a sense? Read this book with an open mind and reserve judgement until your read the full story she is attempting to tell.
Anne's book reminds me of 1984s thought crimes. She comes out swinging and does not pull any punches. I saw her on Hannity and Colmes. Every time Alan asked her questions he would interrupt her answers and she told him off. At first she was rubbing me the wrong way, yet as I watched I understood that she was being tenacious. Her tenacity shows in this book. Has anyone dared to tell this story but Anne? McCarthyism as it is called is not a very popular subject and Anne tells us why. From the revelation to me that McCarthy was late to the party in investigation of communists in American Government to the quotes against the war on terror, which seem to have crescendoed recently. Whether one is a conservative or a liberal, if one could read this with an open mind to investigate some fact, there is much to be learned. Anyone, especially someone with a left of center ideology may and probably will be offended by Anne's sarcasm. In fact, she tends be repetitive in that point sometimes repeating whole phrases about the same people and situations. I would have rated this a 5 if the book focused more on the facts and the outcomes and was less polemic with the infusion of occassional liberal bashing. Yet, you have to admit, when you do have facts, you need to cry it from the housetops. If only we could hear what is being said without offence. What we really need in our country is a dialog while we defend ourselves. Can we do so without anger and predisposition and prejudice of opinion.
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