Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
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Author | Ann Coulter |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Liberalism in the United States |
Publisher | Three Rivers Press |
Publication date | 2003 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 368 |
ISBN | 1-4000-5032-4 |
OCLC | 52133318 |
320.51/3/097309045 21 | |
LC Class | E743 .C68 2003 |
Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism is a 2003 book by Ann Coulter. Three weeks after its release more than 500,000 copies were sold.[1]
McCarthyism[]
In the book, Coulter argues U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy was unfairly portrayed by the U.S. media as persecuting people for political reasons. Coulter alleges McCarthy correctly identified communist foreign spies in the United States.
In an interview with David Bowman, Coulter said that Joseph McCarthy is the deceased person she admires the most. Coulter claims in Treason that McCarthy was simply misunderstood and unappreciated, and that the Venona cables and other sources have vindicated him by showing there indeed were Soviet spies in the United States government. In continuing efforts to exculpate McCarthy, she wrote some columns attacking George Clooney's movie Good Night, and Good Luck, about television journalist Edward R. Murrow and McCarthy. She claims McCarthyism is inaccurately portrayed as destructive.
References[]
- ^ Lawrence Donegan (July 7, 2003). "Blasts at liberal 'traitors' win US book war". The Observer. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
External links[]
- Book reviews
- Tailgunner Ann – by William F. Buckley, Jr.
- A Conspiracy So Vast – by Dorothy Rabinowitz
- Has she no shame? – by Joe Conason
- 2003 non-fiction books
- Books by Ann Coulter
- Books critical of modern liberalism in the United States
- War on Terror books
- Books about the Cold War
- English-language books