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Summary: Let's go Ann!
Review: This book, in all its might and glory, has further shown that the American right is becoming more and more out of touch with reality. Defending Joseph McCarthy? Lord.Hey Ann, how many Communists are in the State Department again?
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Summary: The woman just doesn't know how to tell the truth
Review: Anne Coulter really needs to stop writing books and go back to Kindergarten where they teach you it is wrong to lie. Coulter likes to deify prominent republicans while at the same time demonizing all liberals even down to relatively unimportant liberals such as George Stephanopolis (sic?). Unfortunately, she ignores the facts by simply not writing them. She practically fellates Ronald Reagan for his aggressive stand against Mikhail Gorbachev but fails to mention that the Reagan administration had the most officials conficted of felonies in US history. Of course, she won't let small facts get in the way of her argument. On the other hand she ignores the contributions by liberal democratic Presidens such as Roosevelt and Kennedy who were just as instrumental in the Cold War as Reagan or Nixon and probably more so. She gives very little credit where credit is due, ignores facts in order to push her conservative agenda and marginalize a progressive movement for the people of this country.
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Summary: Another Ann Coulter Triumph!
Review: I liked this book even more than "Slander: Liberal Lies About The American Right" (which is fantastic, by the way), since it is more evidence of the scholarly, intelligent person Ann Coulter is. A gifter writer and wit, she engages the reader in exposing liberal phoniness with her extensive research. You must read this book, especially since it shows the liberal myth of "McCarthyism" for what it was: as a complete batch of nonsense. Thank you, Ann, for a great, powerful, excellent work!
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Summary: A good read regardless of your politics
Review: I've been a lifetime member of the Green party, and nearly all of my views are diametrically opposed to Ms. Coulter's. However, I picked up this book at my local library and it soon became a permanent fixture in my library. Ms. Coulter shows a rare passion for backing up everything she says with well-documented research, and she presents her political opinions very articulately. If nothing else, her voice is a breath of fresh air in the otherwise stale paradigm of political debate. If you're sick of hearing the same arguments from the same talking heads on every talk show, pick up this book.
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Summary: This is a must read for every American!
Review: I purchased this book last night, and have already finished.
It was simply captivating! Ignore the negative reviews of this book, written by liberals who obviously have not taken the time to read the book, or are so brain washed that they believe they can DISPUTE the facts that were revealed by the Vernona Project.
The evidence is right in front of them, and it is time that every American know the truth. McCarthy was a patriot! The Vernon Project confirms this. Communists did indeed infiltrate (ie. infest) the highest levels of our govt, thanks to the Democratic Party! This book was not written on some grassy nolle, as liberals would like you to think. It is based on hard, indisputable, evidence, recently confirmed by the Vernona Project. You owe it to yourself to learn what the Vernona Project revealed about liberals and the democratic party. While you read this book, keep in mind the first sentence from chapter six,
"History is an endless process of liberal brain washing...they write the history books."
Well, do yourself a favor, and read this history book. It will probably be the only accurate version you ever read. It's the piece of the puzzle that was missing from your history classes as kid. It's the version the liberals don't want you to hear. Discover the truth, and then pass it on to a friend!
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Summary: Good book, Entertaining
Review: I don't usually read a lot of books with politicial leanings. For the most part, they're written by very partisan people with no other objective except to say, "We're right, you're wrong", be the author Left or Right. Coulter, I've found, is an idealogue, but oh my is she entertaining! I have to say, "Treason", which I got as a gift (I guess someone thought I wasn't "Right" enough, heh heh), is quite an educational read. The term "McCarthyism" has been bandied about so much that it deserves a factual look back. I'm not sure how much of Coulter's works are true, and what is insinuations, but it's a bloody good time. Mind you, I'm pretty sure I'm still not "Right" enough after having read it, but I enjoy being entertained. Also, I can't help but notice that the vast majority of people who derides Coulter's book seems to have NOTHING to write about the book itself. My guess is that they're the "Left" folks who finds anyone on the "Right" to be cousins of the Devil. I.E. "They're wrong, we're right." I would wager that if I took a look at other partisan books by those on the Left I would find similar uneducated comments meant to deride the book and lower the grade, and not because the reviewer has actually read the book. Really, if you think about it, this is what's wrong with our political system. Democrats and Republicans are so hardcore, so diehard about their different positions, that anyone who disagrees is not only wrong, but EEEE-VIL. Read the reviews again, and you can tell who didn't read the book but posted a "review" only to lower the book's grade, and who actually read it. It's so obvious. Then again, the Left and the Right are so obvious themselves, so there you go.
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Summary: So, this is what we have come to
Review: It is perhaps not surprising, for one who has listened to Limbaugh since 1991, that we now accuse Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy and (God help us) George Marshall of treason, or at least being Communist "dupes." It is a logical progression, and one designed to silence dissent. This is history turned on its head. It was never so simple, dear Ann, and I suspect you know that. Is this what passes for history, while Americans are consumed with "American Idol?" If so, we are in very deep trouble. Read this book with a healthy dose of skepticism. I did. And if you could add a little knowledge of history, well - that would be an improvement over what Ms. Coulter offers. This is a book with a broader agenda than recounting history. And the fact that no one on the Right has condemned it speaks volumes to that agenda.
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Summary: Hiss was innocent?
Review: Those writing the poor reviews here, filled with name calling, fairly well prove Ann Coulter's point about liberal slander. No facts, just slander. The facts uncovered in the Venona Papers, released in 1995, paint an ugly picture of the response to Soviet spying by the Left in the US during and after WWII. But, these are the people that still believe Alger Hiss was an upstanding civil servant. This book has well researched information that you are not going to find elsewhere. You will be astounded!
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Summary: Has she no sense of decency?
Review: ...P>"Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie," she says. "Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals," she opines. Poppycock, say I. In January of 1954, in what the first televised hearings in American history, McCarthy obliquely attacked President Eisenhower for being soft on Communism and directly accused Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens of knowingly aiding the spread of Communism in the US Government. The public watched McCarthy in action and found his bullying, harassing tactics abhorrent. McCarthy did not produce hard evidence of his accusations, just word of mouth and implication. His support among people who had thought he was "right" on communism began to evaporate. Americans regained their senses, and the Red Scare finally began to wane. By the end of the year, the Republican Senate decided that its own honor could no longer put up with McCarthy's abuse of his legislative powers, and it censured him in December by a vote of 65 to 22. His power finally broken, he was exposed to the country as the hate-filled, power-hungry pocket dictator he was. This is the guy that Ann Coulter looks up to. After reading her words, I'm not surprised. One of the things I find most interesting about Coulter is the odd juxtaposition of her coltishly attractive exterior with the vitriol and demagoguery lurking inside; sort of like opening a lovely music box only to find it full of spiders. I felt the urgent need to take a long, hot shower after putting this book down.
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Summary: Unfortunate
Review: The title itself is misleading: his book doesn't take us from the cold war to the war on terrorism, really. It is more interested in revivifying Joe McCarthy--a figure and a period I think we could better live without. Who engages in treason? One is left to wonder at the end of the book...the question has not been answered, excepting some notable communists like the Rosenbergs. I am sure Ms Coulter has some amazing talents--her breath control on talk shows alone is one of them, and it could perhaps win her a bevvy of breath-holding contests--but revisionist historicism is not attractive from any political ideology. Nonetheless, it is good that Ms. Coulter misleads her reders so directly with her book's front cover: in her last book, one had to actually begin page one before arriving at the first misstatement.
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