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Summary: Entertaining, but not exactly "history"
Review: As the description of the book points out, Ann Coulter is a pundit, not a historian. Thus just as you need to take any book by Michael Moore or James Carville with a heaping pile of salt, so too should you be suspicious of books by Ms. Coulter, especially those that appear to be full of facts backed up by research. If you do a bit of research of your own, you'll generally find that Ms. Coulter's "data" is significantly one-sided.In this case, Ms. Coulter began with a controversial title and then wrote a book to match that title. Conservatives, especially those on the far right, will laud this book as "proving" everything they've ever said about "liberals." Liberals will denounce this book as trash. Moderates will agree with a few things, but will probably find the bulk of the book to be amusing in its partisan nature. Unfortunately, I have to give the book two stars simply because the "facts" it presents aren't adequately researched, and because Ms. Coulter fails to make a compelling case to those of us in the middle of the political spectrum. The book comes off as being little more than political spin. It's an entertaining read if you can detach yourself from the author's bias, but, unfortunately, it's difficult to do so.
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Summary: Once again, Ann, you got 'em this time
Review: And this reviewer: "eviewer: A reader from from Boston
"No brainer! She's Nuts!, July 5, 2003
Reviewer: A reader from FL USA
A human being can be this simple minded..
A piece of garbage." Please direct your attention to the post created on July 5th by this very informed and articulate reader. These are the kinds of people who give this book one star. I think that reviewer (and others just like him/her) should read very carefully what they are about to post before embaressing themselves and their entire agenda. Having said that, I give it 4 stars. I take one star away for Ann not trying to understand the other side in her writing. ' What are you talking about? The whole point of Ann's writing this is she understands who these people are perfectly. Sometimes I feel like Ann lived with me in Russia the whole time. How else would she knows this? Both she and Rush - simply brilliant!
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Summary: Disgusting -- filled with incorrect facts and vitriol
Review: Coulter screams loudly, yet says nothing. She evidently hopes that her hyperbolic, vitriolic spewings are vivid enough to cover her poor grasp of history. Her lionization of Joseph McCarthy as a "poet" is particularly obscene, as is her revisionist attitude toward history. This is garbage, and those who buy into her rantings are in serious trouble.
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Summary: Read this book
Review: Ann Coulter is great. You can read her book and disagree with her, but you cannot disagree with her evidence. Look it up yourself and try to disprove her. Test your friends that have been brought up by the media and ask them what they know about the Cold War and McCarthy. You will never get a concrete answer because they never read her book.
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Summary: Preposterous claptrap from the Wicked Witch of the Right
Review: I don't know what's more absurd, that Coulter can get such a poorly researched, misrepresentative, and fabricated work published to begin with, or that so many people take this patchwork of deceit and opinion from such an obviously third-rate mind seriously. If you think this book deserves five stars, go as quickly as you can to the self-help books. And yes, I read it -- that's what libraries are for.
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Summary: worth reading for a laugh
Review: In case you have read some of the reviews saying "well researched and full of facts" just thought I would point out that the same thing was said about miss Coulter's last book, that is until the Columbia Journalism Review (see nov/dec 2002 edition) reviwed her book- Slander. In that piece the authors randomly selected 40 assertions that Coulter made (with implied facts backing them up)and they found 21 (more than half) were "misleading at best." My guess is when they do the same to this book they find similar "facts" presented. Take this for example from the book: "As a rule of thumb, Democrats opposed anything opposed by their cherished Soviet Union. The Soviet Union did not like the idea of a militarily strong America. Neither did the Democrats! (p. 171)." This is either an example of stupidity on her part or a disregard of history. I suppose Truman loved the soviets and communists when he sent troops to Korea, and also when he pushed for the largest percent increase in military spending during peacetime (1949), yes even larger than Reagans increase in the 80's. And I suppose Johnson kept troops in Vietnam because he loved the soviets and communism so much. Where does she come up with this stuff and why to reasonable people believe her. Also, does anyone see the irony that Coulter wrote a book called Slander about how the left slanders the right, and then in her next book she calls all liberals traitors...isn't that slander. The book got three stars from me because it is fascinating to see how far out those on the right have become. I have a question for everyone who likes Coulter and her book, if McCarthy (Coulter's Hero) was alive today is he the type of person any of you would want in the Senate. Keep in mind he was a drunk who died in a ditch after passing out face first in a pool of mud. A tid-bit left out of Ann Coulter's praise for such a wonderful American.
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Summary: Shocked
Review: I am shocked and sad and utterly dismayed. I cannot believe that anyone who loves history, political discourse, accuracy or democracy would admire this book. I am not saying that because I hate conservatives or because I love Hillary Clinton as some posters automatically assume, but because I love the freedom to dissent, to debate, to languish with my father discussing the ins and outs and ups and downs of 227 years of the good, the bad, and the ugly of America. I am not a traitor. I am an American. ...For a balanced - or at the very least, accurate - view of current American politics, I suggest Fareed Zakaria's "The Future of Freedom," and a healthy dose of "The Daily Show."
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Summary: The Terms of Debate
Review: This brilliant book should set the terms of debate for all thinking people -- which unfortunately excludes most of the self-described intelligentsia. Purged of the ubiquitous one-liners (frequently hilarious, sometimes off-putting), this is a remarkable history text. Anyone who thinks that Ann Coulter is wrong on any of her basic points has the burden of presenting facts in rebuttal. I'm not holding my breath waiting.
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Summary: Unfortunate and Wrong
Review: Being a moderate conservative, I started this book with moderate expectations. What I found was not only unfortunate, but wrong. Unfortunate because it inspires hatred and distrust among this country's citizens. We may not always agree, but we are supposed to get along - and through our different ideas make a better place. The author would have us at each other's throats. And wrong - just flat out wrong in twisting facts to make them seem believable, making baseless inconclusive leaps and trying to make untruths into facts. Don't take my word for it - read the editorial in today's (July 7) Wall Street Journal, a publication that has been at times seen as conservative. Does their dissent make them treasonous? Perhaps the author is not just trying to exonerate McCarthy, but pick up where he left off. Have you no shame?
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Summary: Interesting Perspective and Fun Too!
Review: Ann Coulter may be many things to many people - subtle is not one of those things. TREASON is one of those books that will either delight you or infuriate you, but it will not bore you. Her indictment of the mainstream media is strident and scathing, yet she punctuates her ides with evidence and anecdotes which strongly support her position. The author is a frequent guest on the many political talk shows and generally holds her own against her counterparts in the mainstream (read "liberal") media. In addition, her columns,
appearing in a number of conservative venues (from which much of this book is gleaned), are well written. She is outspoken, often irritating (even to conservatives), yet wholly engaging and entertaining while offering opinions of well-reasoned substance as well. Her main premise (that everything that is wrong with America is due to the liberals) may be over the top, however Ann makes a compelling case for the need to reverse the overwhelming liberal bias in the media and society which often overwhelms fact with a patina of political correctness.
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