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Summary: More shocking than I imagined
Review: I was worried that this book would just be a boring defense of McCarthy, but it's a shocking, well-documented indictment of liberal cluelessness in matters of national security, from their pooh-poohing of the Communist threat, defense and history-rewriting sanitization of high-ranking Soviet spies in liberal administrations (if a certain Democratic President had died just one year earlier, we might have had a Soviet spy as President!), and liberal mythologies based on repetition rather than fact, to the present day.Presented with reams of credible evidence, liberal Presidents, academia, and media ridiculed charges that high-ranking officials were most certainly spies - a fact made embarrasingly clear with the 1995 release of the findings of Project Venona. Oops, you might have missed that if you read the NYT. Due to the obtuseness of the left, many secrets valuable to our national security were ferried to the Soviets. On the way the author roundly skewers the ideological blindness of the media, such as the NYT. Ted Koppel is shown simpering with a Soviet spy who fled to the USSR and afterward helped develop weapons used against our troops in Vietnam, emerging from the interview as clueless as before. The bias and resulting distortion in the NYT is again showcased. This book is especially an important antidote to the skewed images your kids will receive from the media and even their schooling. The truth is more shocking than you could have imagined. What is even more shocking is the refusal of the left to acknowledge the evidence to this day ("suspected spy", "might have been a spy", "believed by the vast right-wing conspiracy to be a spy", etc.).
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Summary: Ann Strikes Agaain
Review: I went into Treason somewhat skeptical. As a conservative, but a free thinker, I'm always loathe to follow the party idealogues. However, Ms. Coulter's new book is incredible. Not wanting to take anything for granted, I checked a few of her sources at the library and found her to be 100% on with her quotes. She seems to have taken care not to take things out of context and has laid bare the true Liberal agenda of the past 60 years. Read the book with an open mind. Regardless of your political perspective, you'll come away with new facts and opinions on the cold war, Reagan, and Joe McCarthy.
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Summary: This book misses the major stories of the Cold War
Review: This book takes a baffling view of American history.
First of all, it argues that Senator McCarthy was a hero.
I'll give one example on how McCarthy is NOT a hero and did NOT help win the Cold War, as the author argues. The McCarthy persecutions completely destroyed the China group of the State Department (by blaming them for 'losing' China). Experts such as John Service (the son of a Christian missionaries who grew up in China) were forced not only from government, but often from the country. Even today, we have not recovered the level of China expertise that we had in the late 1940s. To make a long story short, for 20 years, for more than one generation, the United States lacked China resources in government. (Today, this would be the intelligence equivalent of not having satellites in space). The Korean War and the Vietnam War were fought on China's borders, and were waged, in part, to 'contain' China. We can only imagine the alternate scenarios if the US government had advisors that had known something about China, such as this stunning fact: In 1949, China was disgusted with the USSR as an ally (with good reason), and Mao Zedong reached out to the US, correctly recognizing that China's interests would be much better served by cooperating with the rational and prosperous U.S. [The communists in China had been impressed by the Americans they encountered in WWII. In 1944, for example, a team of U.S. intelligence officers spent a year with the Chinese communists, to see if they could help the U.S. fight Japan. The Dixie Mission. Plus, the USSR had caused the Chinese communists immense problems]. Stalin knew that in 1949 Mao was reaching out to the the U.S. It was his greatest fear, that the US and China would become allies. Thus in 1950 when North Korea approached Stalin, with the idea of attacking the South, Stalin gave the green light, knowing that China would get in the fight (for a variety of reasons) and once Americans and Chinese killed each other on the battlefield, the window of opportunity for US/China reapproachement would close. Stalin was right, and his was aided by the destruction caused by the likes of McCarthy. Without his mad persecutions, which incidentally destroyed the military intelligence officers who were on the Dixie Mission, perhaps we would not have had to wait until 1972 (and two bloody wars) to make peace with China. My overall critique of this book: it misses the main story of the Cold War. The 'heros' of this book did much to create the Cold War, and then grabbed the credit when it ended. PS: To young readers, I highly recommend the movie, 'The Manchurian Candidate.' A not-to-be-missed Cold War classic. PPS: Also to young readers: Don't be mislead by the labels, such as 'liberal' and 'conservative.' Instead, look beneath the labels. Look at history. Be your own judge.
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Summary: Great Book!!!
Review: In TREASON, as in SLANDER, Ann Coulter lays out, point by point, why liberals are such a threat to this country and how weak-kneed, spineless Democrat "leaders" for the past fifty years nearly destroyed the USA. Fortunely for us, writers like Ms. Coulter are exposing the treachery of the left and bringing America back to a position of strength. Thank you, Ann, and I suggest that the topic for your next book is the anti-Americanism that is running so rampantly among the Ivory-tower instructors in our colleges and universities. A GREAT BOOK!!! Buy it!
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Summary: Scary!
Review: I don't really know where to begin. This book is terrifying. Not because of what Ann is claiming, but because people are buying it. Ann is at the forefront of a movement that is killing political dissent in America. Her quotes are often incorrect and taken out of context, and her fact checking is either laughable or deliberately misleading. It is irresponsible to even treat this book as nonfiction. I am at a loss as to why so many Americans are quick to embrace Coulter's apologist view of McCarthyism. I beg anyone who is considering a purchase of this book to balance out their learning with some books based on reality. At least read Brendan Nyhan's well written online retort to gain some sort of perspective.
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Summary: A real eye-opener
Review: This is a book that needed to be written and couldn't have been written better. As I read through the first few chapters, I was first amazed, and then angered, that the facts about paid
Soviet agents in our government in the 1940s and 1950s had been dismissed and then, when incontrovertibly proven, ignored by mainstream media. Ann makes a convincing case that the left has actively supported treasonable activity and has consistently taken the anti-American, pro-enemy position on every foreign policy issue since World War II. None of the negative reviews here or elsewhere has answered these assertions.
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Summary: So bad, it is "almost" funny
Review: You have to know almost no history to believe anything in this book. In fact, the publisher should make refunds available to anyone who asks. If you opposed McCarthy, you were guilty of treason? Hmm. So, Dwight David Eisenhower was a traitor? Oh, I guess Prescott Bush (the president's grandfather and a senator from CT in the 1950s) was a traitor too. It's a distasteful piece of garbage that is filled with lies and mistakes.
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Summary: Has Coulter ever heard of democracy?
Review: Treason, as discussed in Article 3, Section 3, of the U.S. Constitution, is a capital offense. To illustrate, let me state that I believe that many of G.W. Bush's policies are grievously mistaken, in paticular the invasion of Iraq. If anyone seriously believes this statement constitutes an act of treason, then by all means they should immediately contact the FBI. Otherwise, one might reasonably question how much credibility one should attribute to an author whose very title shows such a lack of understanding of our democratic traditions in these United States.
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Summary: A Book that demands action!
Review: Ann is right. 50% of the Population of the USA are traitors and the penalty for treason is Death. We must therefore build camps large enough to house 150 million people in custody until we can process them through gas chambers and incinerate the remains in ovens. It will be an expensive process and we may have to revoke the tax cuts for the rich but it will be worth it to remove these evil traitors from our midst. A wonderful and humane work by a true master of common sense and logic.
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Summary: daniel george
Review: Get ready to free your mind. I grew up in a communist Eastern European country (Romania) and now I know who to thank for letting the Russians ruin my native country for over thirty years. What is mind boggeling to me, is the fact that there are still liberals out there who embrace communism or socialism as an enlightened ideology. There are those who would even want to see a Communist Revolution in this country, if they could just get around that pesky second ammendant.
This book should be required reading in every high school U.S. history class, but hell will be a tropical paradise before that happens. This book will make you angry and it will make you laugh; it will make you proud to be a conservative and ashamed to be a liberal (I'm not sure that's even possible, but I can hope)
Way to go ANN. I can't wait for the next one.
P.S. The Supreme Court needs to be exposed.
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