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Title: Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by ANN COULTER ISBN: 1-4000-5030-8 Publisher: Crown Forum Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.93 (1824 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Public Service Announcement for Conservatives
Comment: Please be advised of the following diseases which are reaching epidemic porportions among conservative; the heartbreak of Coulteritus, and the debilitating Bush Fatigue Syndrome:
Coulteritus:
a contagious mental affliction, similar to tourettes syndrome, causing one to speak and write in half-truths. It is characterized by the inability to consider competing ideologies and generate coherent, rational thoughts or ideas. Suffers from coulteritus are known to spontaneously espouse irrational ad hominem attacks against those holding opposing political views, and resort to hyperbole rather than reason in debate. Right-wing talk show hosts frequently suffer from coulteritus. Suffers from the disease commonly perceive the world in black and white only. Conservatives are especially susceptible to this tragic affliction.
Bush Fatigue Syndrome:
an illness similar to chronic fatigue syndrome. It is caused by the strain of the constant daily need to defend or rationalize the poor decisions, horrible domestic record, and foreign policy blunders of the president. Die-hard Republicans are especially prone to get this disease. It reached epidemic porportions after no wmds were found in Iraq, and Bush supporters had to sell the case that we "really" went to war to "liberate the Iraqi" people. Additional flair-ups occured after the last SOU address, after every monthly employment report, general accounting reports regarding the historic deficits (especially when inheriting a budget surplus is referenced), and the president's fumbled interview on Meet the Press. Symptoms include extreme exhaustion, irritability, and dizziness.
Rating: 3
Summary: GREAT -- WITH PROBLEMS
Comment: I knew Ann back when she called herself Tex Watson -- and it is truly thrilling to see how well she has done.
She's been keeping her Adam's Apple mighty busy attacking liberals -- and she has a point. My only difficulty with Ann's material is when she delves into the politics of transgenderism. Christine Jorgensen still seems more intelligent, more cultured than Ann. But let's give the estrogen some time -- and greet Ann's book with the same generosity of spirit she has given to so many.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not a Book For Both Sides
Comment: Whether or not one will enjoy this book rides primarily on one question: are they already firmly seated on the Conservative Republican side of the political spectrum, or aren't they?
Since I am such a person, I enjoyed this book quite a bit. Ann Coulter brought up many points of history I certainly never learned about in school (the exclusion of which was quite interesting, given givens--it's not that anything she said contradicted what I'd learned; it's that no teacher or textbook had ever bothered going into detail about McCarthy, Alger Hiss, or Watergate at all), and her constant citing made it seem likely that much of what she said--leaving out the parts that were opinion or personal judgment--was historically accurate. That's not to say she couldn't possibly have cherry-picked which facts she presented or didn't speak with bias. I suspect she did in the former case, and the latter is obvious. That doesn't mean, to me, that _Treason_ is valueless as far as historical insights go; it means that it shows one side of the story. In that respect, it seems neither more nor less useful than some textbooks I've seen.
The problem is, this is a book for die-hard conservatives only. If you're liberal, moderate, or sitting on the fence as yet? Don't even bother. What _Treason_ has to say might be factually valuable, but it's rife with insults and zingers aimed at everything left-wing. As a conservative, I admit that I enjoyed this aspect of it--I've seen my party and my creeds regularly insulted offhand by people all over the media and Internet, and I did get a certain pleasure out of seeing the favor returned. That's not nice, but what the hey. However, if I'd been a liberal or anything *but* a die-hard conservative, I probably would've been offended out the wazoo by Coulter's openly venemous snarkery. She doesn't mince words when it comes to her opinions, nor couch things in any remotely diplomatic fashion.
And that, I think, is the main problem the book has. It does not and cannot speak to both sides, not really; not when it takes a potshot at liberals every few breaths. It's not likely to win converts to the conservative viewpoint, either. One might argue that this isn't its purpose--and for all I know, that's true--but then I have to wonder what the point is, since that would mean she's preaching to the choir. Maybe she only wanted to educate young, ignorant conservatives about certain points in history; I'm not sure. It seems a waste of potential if so: this book could have had things to say to more people than just the solid right wing, if it didn't go out of its way to alienate anyone with leftist leanings. Of course, if it weren't so vicious, it probably wouldn't be so controversial or receive so much attention, and it would probably be a much heavier and slower read. (She *can* be pretty funny, if you happen to share her bias, and that makes the book more palatable IMHO than if it had been a dry and personality-free accounting.) This may be why she took the tack she did, and I can understand it if so; still, it's sort of a shame.
In short: if you're already conservative and would like to read something that has plenty of interesting historical tidbits and a great deal of vilification of liberals? By all means, pick this up. You'll probably have fun with it. If you're a liberal, though, this will probably (and understandably) tick you off too much to do anything for you. If you're someone of any party who doesn't care for rampant snarking, give this a pass. And if you're somewhere inbetween... well, you could give it a try, but go into it knowing that the left-bashing is extremely heavy and may well offend.
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Title: Slander : Liberal Lies About the American Right by ANN COULTER ISBN: 1400049520 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America by Laura Ingraham ISBN: 0895261014 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Who's Looking Out for You? by BILL O'REILLY ISBN: 0767913795 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism by Sean Hannity ISBN: 0060514558 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity by David Limbaugh ISBN: 0895261111 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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