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Summary: If she's wrong....prove it!
Review: For those who have written negative reviews of this book, I have yet to read one that cites some specific facts that Ann Coulter is wrong about. Challenging ones ideological views is one thing. However, even those who purport to have PhD's in History talk about the divisive nature of Ann's research and opinions and fictitious nature of her sources. Yet they fail to provide any specific proof she is WRONG! This book is simply outstanding and shines the light on the left for a change - and they can't stand it. Thank God for free speech and thank God Ann is out there calling liberals for what they are not based on what they say, but on what they have done. The truth hurts.
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Summary: the really funny thing is.....
Review: okay, i admit - i haven't read the book. i'm unlikely to read the book - political opinion pieces don't interest me, i have PLENTY of opinions of my own, thank you. what i HAVE read are some of the reviews of the book here. and it's funny to see the depths to which people are attached to their political leanings. the reviews tend to be polar - you either love it or hate it, probably at a one-to-one ratio of whether you are liberal or conservative. but the really funny thing is the "was this review helpful to you" rating. take a scan through them - they run generally 50/50! if a review was positive, half the people give it thumbs down, half give it thumbs up. if the review was negative - half thumbs down, half thumbs up. hilarious! okay, maybe not hilarious. amusing. oh - i gave the book three stars. right in the middle. since i haven't read it, i can't give it a one or a five. since this is a meta-review, that seemed appropriate. now, the fun part will be to see how 'helpful' people will rate this non-review. heh.
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Summary: Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Review: I read this book with horror, thankfully a friends copy, no money from my pocket supported this sad little book. The tactic seems clear. To justify the demonization of the opposition, with righteous indignation. Make the opposition afraid to opose. Scare the moderates into keeping silent. Deter honest debate and free thought. If someone disagrees with you, question their loyalty.
If they are insulted and cry foul, tough. You have a right to question their patriotism, you are right. This woman is revisiting, and encouraging the employment of truly evil tactics that play to the worst part of human nature. Look back in horror at McCarthy, Wertham, Hollywood black-lists and such, and see this book for what it truly is.
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Summary: TREASON, SADDAM, HITLER
Review: The first sign of tyranny throughout the ages has been the elimination of dissent. All dictators, from Hitler to Stalin to Saddam, have started by eliminating opposing views of any type and classifying them as treason.
Actually I gave this book 2 stars because it's very good to read and then compare to the WHOLE story and real history... and see how much you can manipulate facts to suit your cause and paint a dark picture of a sunny day... if you get my drift ;)
This is NOT to say that the liberals are blameless. They have made mistakes as did their conservative counterparts.
So if you're into the whole conservatives vs. liberals "war", and you're on the conservative side, then buy this book and have a blast. However, if you're more grown-up and consider yourself an American, not a donkey or an elephant, then get some real books and learn the real stuff, warts and all.
You can take the saintliest person in the world and if you chop-up their qualities concentrate only on the negative and build an image based only on that... you'd end up inevitably with the boogey-man... This is what Ann Coulter does. Sure, it's all based on facts, chopped-up, distorted and taken out of context facts... to achieve the "Boogey man" aspect... 'Nuff said.
Just for the record, I am NOT a liberal and I do consider a large part of liberal policies ill thought. But to scapegoat them and call it treason... Grow up.
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Summary: Do you hear the Left screaming????
Review: Ann Coulter has done it again - brough well researched FACTS and laid them out for all to see. Is it any wonder the Left is screaming bloody murder? Their deep dark secrets are bing put on exibit. Ann's writing style along with her exhaustive reasearch has lead to yet another brilliant expose on many of the ills of our country. In this work, she undo's many of the revisionist's history lessons on the last 50+ years of our country. This book is an eye-opening look at just how active the left has been (and still is) at trying to bring our country into the communist fold. This book should be mandatory reading for high school students. I just wish our current history books were as well researched and honest as Ann Coulter's books. I hate to say it, but those who find this book to be offensive or objectionable are obviously taking her words as personal attacks - and probably for good reason.
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Summary: As a liberal
Review: I find this book to be a direct threat on my life. Treason is punishable by death and/or life imprisonment. If she can go around on a witch hunt such as this and have a following, I worry about the future of our country and the world. No wonder she is an apologist for McCarthyism, she wants to be the next one to point out the "reds under your beds". Do people ever learn? Here vision of history is completely skewed. Go take a course in recent American history to learn what was happening.
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Summary: Great, Great, Book!
Review: I read all these reviews critizing this book as not well researched. Not true. It is very well researched with sources referenced on just about every page. For a polical book, it is extremely entertaining. Buy it!!!
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Summary: This book made the vein in my neck throb
Review: Before reading this book I had never given serious thought to Ann Coulter. I had heard of her other two books and simply dismissed both as nothing more then simple right wing clap trap. I don't buy in to her arguments and I don't buy into the arguments of left wing radicals like Michael Moore. What appalls me about this book is the fact that she is attempting to write history. Ms. Coulter claims that her book is exposing the truth about the Cold War and the War on Terror, but in fact she simply has ended up getting bogged down in her own right wing propaganda. Let me pause for a moment and say that I fully understand this book was written for a select group of people, what concerns me is the possibility that someone with no opinion on the events she describes is going to pick up Treason and read it as the truth. First of all Ms. Coulter tells everyone that her facts are solid and all her statements are backed up by extensive research. This could not be further from the truth. This has been established by several people, including Brendan Nyhan who recently wrote an excellent piece on Treason. Several of the people who gave this book 5 stars stated that no on was providing any errors from her writing. Well alright here are a few examples: "Truman's undersecretary of state, Sumner Welles, defended Duggan." (p. 47) Welles in fact had served as Roosevelt's undersecretary of state and had been forced out of office by Cordell Hull in 1945. On p. 84 Coulter refers to George C. Marshall as Truman's ambassador to China. In fact he only served as his personal envoy for a fact finding mission regarding the Nationalist government. Two other men (Patrick J. Hurley and J. Leighton Stuart) served during this period. On p. 148 she writes, "Immediately after Churchill's speech, Truman instructed his secretary of state Dean Acheson..." The speech is the Iron Curtain speech which took place in 1946, Acheson did not become secretary of state until 1949. On p. 151 she writes, "His [MacArthur's] troops swept north, eventually crossing the Yalu River..." I hate to break it to Ms. Coulter but US troops never crossed the Yalu River during the Korean War, we only approached it. If we had we would have been in China. Those are just a few examples of some basic facts she screwed up. Her description of the Marshall Plan debate is ludicrous. By reading her one would think that if wasn't for those Congressional Republicans their never would have been a Marshall Plan. In fact it took a tremendous about a prodding to force the still largely isolationist Republicans to take any action at all. She also makes the point that the plan presented by the Truman administration included no funding for Greece or Turkey. In fact the plan was originally conceived as a way of assuming responsibility from the British for those two particular areas. For a more accurate description I would direct people to Evan Thomas and Walter Isaacson's book The Wise Men. In her chapter on the Korean War one would think that MacArthur was this god like man who was forced out by scheming Truman cronies. Please, MacArthur had his brilliant moments, but he was insubordinate and that he could disobey the commander-in-chief. She also makes the point that do to Dean Acheson's January 1950 speech in which he publicly placed South Korea outside of our defensive zone the North Koreans felt emboldened to invade. In fact if she bothered to check the facts that speech was made after MacArthur had made the same conclusions, which he reported to the administration. Check out Geoffrey Perret's biography of MacArthur. Additionally, the North Koreans had made the decision long before January 1950, checkout the recent research on that aspect of the Korean War. There is much more that I could address (Vietnam, Reagan, etc.) but I feel these were some good examples of the lack of research she did. Check out her sources, she does not use any primary sources, which is what real scholarly work is built upon. Ms. Coulter instead relies upon editorials, newspaper articles, and other people's work. Truthfully it seems that Ms. Coulter's entire problem with the Democratic Party is her belief that it has been dominated by upper-class WASPs who would do anything to protect one of their own. I had thought that this had finally ended when Richard Nixon died, who loved to yell about the Eastern Establishment. Ms. Coulter devotes entire paragraphs on how the WASPs loved treason and hated their country. Stop complaining, she thinks liberals whine. Get over it, so you didn't go to a boarding school and you didn't go to Harvard or Yale or Princeton. Big deal. Speaking as someone who has been described as a WASP before, I say knock off it's really quite old now. I would point out to Ms. Coulter that the "Eastern Establishment" despite a few notable examples was fairly strongly conservative for quite a few years. That's a fact. In the end the fact that one of the people Ms. Coulter uses to back up her work has recently dismissed her work as garbage is most telling. Ronald Radosh, who is described by Coulter as a pre-eminent historian, recently said, "I am reading it - she uses my stuff, Harvey Klehr and John Haynes, Allen Weinstein, etc. to distort what we actually say and to make ludicrous and historically incorrect arguments...I thin kit is important that those who are considered critics of left/liberalism don't stop using our critical faculties when self-proclaimed conservatives start producing [this stuff]." Radosh is referring to Coulter's treatment of the McCarthy period. You know what many of those were in fact spies, I know that and that's what the new information tells us. But it does not excuse McCarthy for his behavior, which was abominable. In the end please, for god's sake, do not read Treason as history. It is clearly not.
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Summary: Excellent book! Ann Coulter fries the pathetic left again!
Review: Lets face it, the left hate America. They always have.
Not only that, the American left wing extremists have always had more loyalty to America-hating Europeans and corrupt European regimes like France and the ex-Soviet Union than to America.
Just have a read of the vicious anti-American column by William Pfaff in the New York Times owned International Herald Tribune last week, to see how evil the left in America really is.
Lets face it, the New York Times and the left wing establishment press in America (most of the press) do more to stir up anti-American hatred in the world than even Al Quaeda does.
Like the America hating New York Times, if the left is not actively stirring up anti-American propaganda, they are making things up (think Jason Blair).
Evil left wing clowns at the New York Times, are at least partly responsible for example for the 7 million Ukrainians starved to death by Stalin, because the America hating, British born, New york Times reporter in Moscow, Walter Durante, kept writing fiction in the New York Times that there was no starvation going on in the Soviet Union at all! Ann Coulter's devastating expose of the true evil nature of the left in America shows how the left in America have been working to destroy everything that is good about America, and how they have been undermining and sabotaging American security and the American economy for as long as anyone can remember.
This book is a must read for every clear thinking America. The forces for good in America must rise and actively expose the nefarious activities of the left and do everything to smash the hateful left in America.
Ann Coulter is a true patriot, whose contribution to making America strong must be applauded by everyone who loves this country.
Every clear thinking American should buy this excellent book!
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Summary: Open a history book people
Review: Please. Or at least check on these sources Ann Coulter used. You will learn that she has been force feeding you distortions, half-truths and blatant lies. I'm not talking about stuff that's open to interpretation here- I'm talking about factual errors!
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