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

by Ann Coulter (Published 2004, ISBN 1400050324)

Treason is a bit vitriolic at times and does not infrequently descend into mere name-calling. Nevertheless, it is a well-researched volume presenting a great deal of under-publicized information and a number of convincing arguments. This is no passing, emotional editorial comment; it contains 36 pages of meticulously recorded notes and an index.

Ann Coulter points out what few would dare to: that McCarthy, whatever you may say of his methods, was at least ultimately correct about the number of Soviet agents infesting the United States government. She also argues, much to the chagrin of many, that the validity of a politician's patriotism ought to be fair game in the political debate, that liberal politicians have in the past coddled and misjudged tyrants while ignoring threats to America's national security, that many leaders of the left tend to treat minorities as infants incapable of supporting themselves, and that many leftists have been seething with anti-American sentiment for some time now, viewing ordinary, patriotic Americans as the backward, ignorant masses.

Coulter provides a viewpoint as well as a series of facts that will be unfamiliar to a great many Americans, because the press has generally presented the news in accordance with its own prejudices, under-reporting important facts and events and over-emphasizing others.

Coulter is a new kind of conservative writer, employing a kind of acerbic wit and emotionalism usually absent from conservative writings.