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- Hardcover: 240 pages ; Dimensions (in
inches): 0.97 x 9.70 x 6.36
- Publisher: Crown Pub; ; 1st edition (June
25, 2002)
- ISBN: 1400046610
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Book Description “The immutable fact of politics
in America is this: liberals hate conservatives.”
Ann Coulter, whose examination of the Clinton
impeachment was a major national bestseller and earned widespread praise,
now takes on an even tougher issue.
At a time when Democrats and Republicans should
be overwhelmingly congenial, American political debate has become increasingly
hostile, overly personal, and insufferably trivial.
Whether conducted in Congress or on the political
talk shows, played out at dinners or cocktail parties, politics is a nasty
sport.
At the risk of giving away the ending: It’s
all liberals’ fault.
Cultlike in their behavior, vicious in their
attacks on Republicans, and in almost complete control of mainstream national
media, the left has been merciless in portraying all conservatives as
dumb, racist, power hungry, homophobic, and downright scary.
This despite the many Republican accomplishments
of the last few decades, as well as the Bush administration’s expert handling
of the country’s affairs in the wake of the worst attacks on American
soil and of the war that followed.
With incisive reasoning and meticulous research,
Ann Coulter examines the events and personalities that have shaped modern
political discourse—the bickering, backstabbing, and name-calling that
have made cultural mountains out of partisan molehills.
She demonstrates how the media, especially,
are biased—and usually wrongheaded—and have done all in their power to
obfuscate the issues and the people behind them, bending over backward
to villainize and belittle the right, while rarely missing an opportunity
to praise the left.
Perhaps if conservatives had had total control
over every major means of news dissemination for a quarter century, they
would have forgotten how to debate, too, and would just call liberals
stupid and mean. But that’s an alternative universe. In this universe,
the public square is wall-to-wall liberal propaganda.
Refreshingly honest and unerringly timely,
Slander continues where Bernard Goldberg’s number one bestselling Bias
left off.
From the Back Cover
In Praise of Ann Coulter
“Ann Coulter is one of the fiery new breed of conservative commentators
who don’t worry what the Establishment thinks of them.” —Robert D. Novak
“The conservative movement has found its diva.” —Bill Maher
“Coulter, like her ideological opposite, the late William Kunstler, is
obsessed with protecting civil liberties and free speech. But the speech
she is trying to protect, which includes every form of controversial political
incorrectness . . . is threatened by liberals.” —Harper’s Bazaar
“There’s nothing artificial about Ann. She has a vision of the Constitution
and the government’s rightful role in our lives that is much different
from the mainstream, and much different from mine, but she represents
a significant constituency.” —Geraldo Rivera
“Ann Coulter is a pundit extraordinaire.” —Rush Limbaugh
“One of the twenty most fascinating women in politics.” —George
magazine
"Liberals have been
wrong about everything in the last half century," writes conservative
pundit Ann Coulter, author of the best-selling anti-Clinton tome
High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
They've been especially wrong about Republicans,
she writes. The bulk of Slander, in fact, is a well-documented
brief dedicated to the proposition that most of the media despises anybody
whose political opinions lie an inch to the right of the New York Times
editorial page.
This is hardly an original observation, though
few have presented it with such verve. Coulter is the shock-jock of right-wing
political commentary, able to dash off page after page of over-the-top
but hilarious one-liners:
"Liberals dispute slight reductions in the marginal
tax rates as if they are trying to prevent Charles Manson from slaughtering
baby seals."
There's a certain amount of irony about an author
who says "liberals prefer invective to engagement" also declaring, "The
good part of being a Democrat is that you can commit crimes, sell out
your base, bomb foreigners, and rape women, and the Democratic faithful
will still think you're the greatest."
But then carefully measured criticism never
has been Coulter's shtick--or her appeal. Fans of Rush Limbaugh and admirers
of Bernard Goldberg's Bias won't want to miss Slander.
--John Miller
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