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Summary: Go get em Ann
Review: I've read all of Ann's books and she does a great job of keeping the material flowing while throwing in some humor. I sometimes think that even though alot of people agree with what she says, the fact that she kinda of comes of with an in your face attitude might make her a bit much to swallow. I am neither a conservative or a liberal as I share both sides views on certain things and I can say that I definately reccomend this book.
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Summary: Likely to be surprisingly useful
Review: There was a book I had which was called "Counterexamples in Algebraic Topology". Good grief, what a wonderful (though arduous) way to learn mathematics! The way it happened in that book was to see a series of propositions (on the whole, fairly simple), and to chew through the detail regarding the falsification of the arguments. A sort of inside out learning process.I can see the potential here. For people who teach and study history, this book is going to be invaluable. Taking each of the false premises, starting with the manifest destiny stuff and moving outwards to Vietnam and the present war, this is a way of getting lazy but well intentioned folks to hunt through archives, papers, and thesis (plural) and really get to know the history of America. There is a ever more present reason to understand clearly, what's more to STUDY in a disciplined way, what it means to be living there, that is, until the Prince of Peace returns. Until then....
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Summary: This book is a joke...
Review: I am neither liberal nor conservative, democrat nor republican. I am an independent voter in a country where people are way too quick to jump onto one bandwagon or another, without even knowing what the parties stand for. For example, did you know you can be against abortion and not Republican?? Yes it's true! Or you can be for affirmitive action and not Democratic! Anyway, I am just disgusted by the lame reviews I see all over this site. Conservatives give all Liberal books a 1 star without even reading it and vice versa. So I am neither one nor the other and I read A LOT of books, from very far left authors like Micheal Moore to very far right authers like Ann Coutler. All that being said... this book is terrible. The problem is not her point of view, you expect that. The problem is that she misquotes, takes quotes COMPLETELY out of context, uses a TON of endnotes that no one is going to bother to read at the end of her book (which leaves the reader believing things to be a way in which they are not) and as far as I can see, she just plain makes stuff up. There isn't much fact in her book at all, it's just liberal bashing. I've read her other book and it was equally as bad. This individual has no business writing books. It's sad. Save your money.
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Summary: It really was a good attempt, but...
Review: She made a good attempt with this book and I found some of it interesting when I read it, but unfortunately, she falls flat on her face. Let me start with what everyone is looking for: McCarthy. She makes the claim that nobody he named (and/or bumped off from their job) was innocent. This is incorrect. One example is Theodore Kaghan, a Public Affairs Officer in the United States High Commission for Germany who McCarthy cost him his job. In fact, he was involved in no subversive or Communist activity. Another is Millard Tydings, Senator from Maryland. After being in charge of invesigating McCarthy, Tydings came under attack by McCarthy in his next election. McCarthy sunk Tydings mainly by showing a doctored photo of him to make it look as if he was having an intimiate conversation with Communist leader Earl Broder. She also conveniently skips by episodes such as his sliming of John Phillip Jessup and his fraudulent defense of Nazi war criminals in the Malmedy Hearings. I will have more to post later, but if you want a good read on McCarthy, see The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate by Robert Griffith.
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Summary: Could not put in down!!!!!
Review: I read Ann Coulter's book in about 2 or 3 days. I found her book to be thought provoking, revealing and at points, hysterically funny. Not only did her book confirm what I had been thinking and saying for years with cold hard facts and detailed history, but it also taught me a lot of history that I was not aware of. With over 40 pages of references, this is a very well researched book. Ann Coulter shows us why she graduated at the top of her class, she obviously put a lot of effort into this book and it shows. Her wit and sarcasm also shines through in this book. She has a gift of expressing serious ideas in a way that sometimes is just downright hysterical. There are passages that made me laugh till I cried. Some say her style alienates a lot of liberals, but even so, her exposure of the truth alienates liberals all the same. Having a dictionary close by won't hurt when reading this book, either. She uses some 2 dollar words and is very eloquent. I liked this book so much that I have since purchased her audiobook, "Slander".
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Summary: Destined For the Dustbin of History
Review: Self-promotion and greed must be the motivation behind this book because it sure isn't motivated by critical conservative thought. She may very well be popular, but so are other vapid blondes with nothing to say. This book doesn't add up in any serious way. In Coulter's vastly over-simplified politcal world, conservatives are good, and liberals evil, end of story. This book is so full of ridiculous opinions that are easily proven false. I won't waste time doing it here it's been done all over the Internet. When she gets away from her hate and McCarthy-revisionism (What next Ann, No Holocaust?) she can be kind of funny. Especially when she makes up words like "liberal hobgoblinism". Puts me in mind of a very appropriate quote: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
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Summary: Wasted an entire week
Review: My parents had this book, so I read it while visiting them for a week. Then, because of all the uproar over whether it's the truth or not, I decided to check footnotes on the internet. I checked 50 of the references she used to give "facts" in the book, and 49 of them were either wrong, misquoted, or downright lies. Unfortunately, the only conclusion I can come to is this is the type of "writing" that, while it appeals to the Jerry Springer-esque crowd, is dangerous and inciting. This book should be read as fiction, since most of it is simply made up.
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Summary: No stars
Review: This book is a total waste of time. I try to read books from both sides and try to stay neutral, even though most of the time I lean to the right. However, this book will not give you any information or any ideas. It is a collection of cutouts and out of text quotes from different newspapers. There are comments of highly opinionated and stupid woman, with no proper education, knowledge, and background to comment on any of her sources. Pretty much every paragraph in her book is absurd, some contain stupid blabbers, some are taken directly from fantasyland. Everything she says about Soviet Union and cold war is lies. Everything she said about Truman and Roosevelt is lies. She might be mad, but that does not make her a worthwhile reading material. Do not waste your time - read something else.
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Summary: Hey you libs: Read the book first!
Review: It's obvious in the review section here that most of the idiot liberals who gave this book 1 star have not even bought or read it. This is a history book that has not been massaged by freaky liberals to the point of being fiction. I grew up in these times and she's right on. I have yet to read a better documented treatise on the subjects in the book, and combined with her charming wit, what a great way to learn or re-learn history. Keep up the great work Ann, and thanks so much.
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Summary: Finally! Some vindication for Joe McCarthy
Review: Outstanding read. No matter what one's political leanings, you cannot argue the facts: 1. Although people love to claim that Joe McCarthy ruined people's lives with his "commie witch hunt", they have yet to produce even one example of such. 2. Joe was finally vindicated, as Ann eloquently points out, when it was discovered that there were, in fact, communist spies in high-level positions of our government. It doesn't require genius to recognize that it has become a pattern of the liberal left to fight those who hold dissenting opinions by destroying their lives using deception and outright fabrication. One need only to remember what was done to Kenneth Starr - a man who was only doing his job during the investigation of our former commander-in-chief Bill "what does under oath mean?" Clinton, and he will find the impetus to believe every word of this book. I have done extensive web-searching to find anyone who has found even one serious flaw in the material facts of this book as presented and have yet to find it. Thanks, Ms. Coulter.
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