Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism

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Summary: Terrific
Review: Simply Unputdownable. Ann is witty and sarcastic and she gives facts dates, names and cuts through propaganda. I recommend this book to every American.

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Summary: Eye-Opening Book
Review: This book provided me with a first rate education on the behavior of liberals in this country over the past 50 years, from blindly allowing communists to wander the hall of the government, the slander campaign against a great american -- Joe McCarthy, to the distortion of facts surrounding the Soviet Union and our present conflict. From the facts presented in this book -- and she does a very meticulous job of documenting her sources -- one can see the pattern of unpatriotic activities liberals have engaged in over the past 50 years; Hence the title of the book, Treason.

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Summary: Review from a conservative college student.
Review: Let me begin by saying that I am an avid fan of Ann Coulter. Not only is she brilliant, but she's hot too. I read her columns religiously, and I bought and read Slander the day that it came out. That being said I now understand why she was fired from National Review. Her writing style has decayed to a substandard level. In her attempt to follow in the footsteps of the masterpiece that was Slander she has strayed from her principles of writing that got her to where she is today. The book is extremely repetitive, and simple. In her attempts to slam the left (which I support whole heartedly) she seems to lose sight of the fact that her audience is an intelligent sort that does not need to be hammered over the head with every point that she makes. The repetition and over passionate style of writing has made the book almost unreadable to even a staunch conservative such as myself. Nonetheless, she does make some excellent points, and the book is worth reading if you can make it through all of the rhetoric and repetition.

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Summary: Embarrassed to be a conservative
Review: This book (as well as her others) makes me embarrassed to call myself a conservative. She's the Michael Moore of the right, except somewhat better looking. I suspect her popularity is based on her looks, because it certainly has nothing to do with her writing skills.

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Summary: Right on target!
Review: I was born in 1953 and grew up in the 1960s. I attended the Chicago Public Schools where I was taught, as I'm sure that many of you were, that the "McCarthy Era" was a terrible time when innocent people cowered in fear that the ogre Senator Joseph McCarthy would wrongfully accuse them of being Communists and ruin their lives. It was described as if it were the return of the Salem witch trials, only worse. Senator McCarthy was invariably described as a publicity seeking demagogue who never actually found a single traitor and who was finally exposed as worse than wrong, a shameless self promoter who recklessly destroyed the lives of many good people. As an adult I occasionally would notice that the real facts were quite different. For example, let's take the case of Mr. Vladimir P. who used to regularly appear on American television in the late 80s and early 90s at about the time of the collapse of the Soviet empire. He was invariably introduced as a "journalist" from the Soviet Union. I discovered that Mr. P. was born as an American Jew whose father was employed at the movie studios in Hollywood until he was "outed" as a Communist or Communist sympathizer. So he did what any other innocent and loyal American would do when wrongfully accused of being soft on communism, he took his family to the Soviet Union where his son Vladimir became a devoted member of the Communist Party and a "journalist" for Pravda, the mouthpiece for the Soviet government . He then came to America where he became a houseguest of the host of a certain well known nightly news program and a business partner of a well known TV talk show host. So many times I noticed that "innocent" people like these turned out to be pretty much what Senator McCarthy and his supporters said they were. I also noted that our great press and media never seemed to notice this, or at least they never mention it, nor did the great minds of academia, for that matter. In this book "Treason", Ann Coulter does a better job than anyone else ever has at laying out the true facts about what the records show actually happened. SENATOR MCCARTHY WAS RIGHT! Alger Hiss WAS a Soviet agent! The Rosenbergs DID PASS ATOMIC SECRETS TO THE SOVIETS! If anything McCarthy underestimated the Communist infiltration into our federal government. He was a conscientious, patriotic American who may have done more than anyone else in facilitating the ultimate victory of the American way over the Stalinist totalitarian Soviet Union. Ann Coulter is becoming as effective a spokesperson for conservative Americans as Rush Limbaugh was ten years ago. Her method is to confront liberals with the truth and the liberals HATE her for it. It's as if the liberal establishment collectively decided in the 30s and 40s to abandon the truth about their peculiar relationship with the Communists and have been lying about it ever since. Now, all that they have left are the lies. Ann Coulter has the truth and she gives it to you straight. I imagine that it must be very scary for the liberals.

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Summary: Libs - What are you afraid of? Thou dost protest too much..
Review: I already wrote my review... Best book ever written. But in viewing the 1-star reviews, obvious liberals are writing things like "people should be prevented from reading", "Coulter should be prevented from reproducing"... Just like them to want to change the constitution. Why so afraid? Is the jig up? Read this book and decide for yourself. And if your an extremist liberal (which you are if you're one of the 1-star reviewers), then try Hilary's book where she does what liberals have done best for the last 50 years - revise history.

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Summary: Most Important Book Ever Written
Review: This is simply the most important book ever written. Any "Matrix" movie fans? In the Matrix, he learns that the world he knew was in fact not reality. He searches out the truth because he has a "feeling" something is not right. He finds the truth. Like most of us, I am middle-of-the-road politically and was taught like the rest of us the liberal version of history. But something wasn't right about it. If there was a "vast right wing conspiracy" as Hilary Clinton is so fond of saying, then the right-wingers aren't very good at it. 9-11 changed everything. I had to resolve this. This book was my wake-up call! There is no "vast right wing conspiracy". There is in fact a vast left wing conspiracy! You'll never look at a democrat the same way again. Buy this book if you're not afraid of the truth. It's too important now more than ever...

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Summary: Pure Unadultrated Garbage
Review: The first 20 pages was all I could handle. Ann Coulter would be an idealogical fit for the Taliban Mullahs... but alas she is a woman so they might not have allowed her to write this book.

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Summary: Oh, Please!
Review: If you believe one word of this poorly-documented, badly researched, clumsily written so-called book, you deserve to have bought it. There are lots of conservatives out there who are intelligent, know how to write, don't "lie", and aren't seeking a career in prime-time television. Anyone interested in serious political debate should read those books. Anyone wanting to boost Coulter's career as a Fox(y) Blonde can waste their bucks on this lurid nonsense.

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Summary: McCarthism for the 21st Century
Review: McCarthism is named after a republican; maybe one day they'll call this 'Coulterism.' From Slate Magazine http://slate.msn.com/id/2085977/:
Ann Coulter, the right wing's dial-900 girl-a rail-thin, chain-smoking, hard-drinking, big-eyed leggy blonde who winkingly serves up X-rated ideological smut on liberals-is at it again. 'Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy,' Coulter writes-or sneers-in Treason, her follow-up effort to the best-selling Slander. Like its predecessor, Treason sits atop the best-seller charts, riding higher than one of Coulter's signature miniskirts. But this time around, it isn't the liberals who are up in arms; it's the conservatives...Coulter's cheerleading on behalf of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and 'his brief fiery ride across the landscape,' as she puts it, is what has her critics most exercised. Doesn't she understand, they ask, that McCarthy wasn't an anti-Communist at all but a dangerous outrider who harmed a noble cause by defaming and giving ammunition to the left? Again they're right-but only on rather drearily familiar grounds. Coulter is closer to the truth on the big question, McCarthy's actual place in the conservative pantheon. For many years he was precisely the GOP folk hero she says-a pivotal figure who invented the inside-the-Beltway insurgency that has been the party's staple for half a century now, currently embodied by flame-throwers like Tom DeLay. During McCarthy's peak years, he was a GOP heavyweight egged on by the likes of Senate leaders Robert Taft and William Knowland. In 1952, Dwight Eisenhower, the GOP presidential nominee, shared a platform with McCarthy even though McCarthy had smeared Ike's mentor, George Marshall, by calling him a Communist dupe. And as Coulter says, the people-a lot of them, anyway-loved him, too. More than 1 million signed a petition supporting him during the censure debate of 1954, and half the Republican senators (22 out of 44) voted against the measure. A year after McCarthy's death in 1957 Robert Welch, another conspiracy-monger, founded the John Birch Society to pick up the cudgel and continue the 'fight for America.' Today, Birchers are remembered as kooks (and were often dismissed as such at the time). But these 'little old ladies in sneakers' got a big hug from the conservative movement. Ronald Reagan for one-though mistily depicted of late as the ideological heir of the Democratic 'traitors' Truman and JFK-made his political debut stumping for Congressman John Rousselot, a top California Bircher, in 1962. And the McCarthy legacy lives on...All Coulter has done is import this approach-the flat-out accusatory style of hardball politics. By Sam Tanenhaus Posted Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 11:13 AM PT