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

Conservative shock-mistress Ann Coulter continues her pillorying of American liberals with a follow-up to SLANDER. In an argument that poses a challenge to conventional interpretations of the First Amendment, she argues that because liberals are wrong on every issue concerning political analysis or policy prescription, their politics amount to treason. Her analyses range from the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy to the Gulf War, from the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss affair to the present war on terrorism, from the Nixon presidency to that of Clinton, from domestic to foreign policy. Coulter's power derives not only from the consistency and thoroughness of her argument - that "Liberals have been wrong about everything in the last half century" - but also from her over-the-top humor.