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

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

Author	Ann Coulter
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
Dewey Decimal	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.

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Book reviews

• Tailgunner Ann – by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• A Conspiracy So Vast – by Dorothy Rabinowitz
• Has she no shame? – by Joe Conason