Me too. This may sound improbable, but "Treason" changed my political life. When I read her book, her account of McCarthy was indeed so diametrically opposed to anything I had ever heard about him, I thought "Okay...someone isn't telling the truth here.
So, I investigated. I began reading all the books I could find of that era, beginning with "Witness" and currently I am reading the Radosh books "Red Star over Hollywood". I just finished David Horowitz's book "Radical Son".
I even went to the Library of Congress and got copies of the transcripts of the McCarthy hearings.
In particular, I wanted to see for myself if Coulter was accurate of her portrayal with the encounter with Joseph Welch with the famous line: "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
I just could not believe everything I had been told growing up in school, and by the media, and by PBS was so far off. So I read the entire transcript of that day, including the exchange.
And you know what? Ann Coulter's version was spot on. She was right. Everything I have been told about McCarthy was a "hegemonic lie", as she suggested.
So, all the textbooks lied. Walter Cronkite and his pals lied. My teachers lied (although many, I suspect may have been equally as misinformed as myself)
As a result, I now view every piece of news I see with unaccepting discriminaton. And I thank Ann Coulter for that.
Yep. God bless her for having more balls than any ten Republicans you could name.
Sadly, if our side doesn't get control of "history" the texts will someday teach our grand-children that Reagan was a lucky moron, that Dubya allowed blacks to drown in New Orleans deliberately, and that Ann Coulter was Eva Braun's grand-daughter.