Where, on this thread, has anyone said such a thing ? NOWHERE; THAT'S WHERE !
I'll say it again, "TREASON " is NOT a bio, not even a mini bio of McCarthy. There has been NO " whitewashing " of him, from what I've seen. If someone were to write a book about the Gallic Wars and left out Gaius Julius Caesar's fling with Cleopatra, that would NOT be " whitewashing " Caesar . Get it now ?
Fine, don't, by any means, buy and read " TREASON ". Don't you dare! Remain ill informed.
A few things: a) I've lurked on this forum for awhile. Also, I've read Coulter LONG before coming onto FR and have gotten into discussions about her--FR is not the only place where you can learn about her. Furthermore, even in the short time that I've been on this board, there have been several threads about Coulter, all of which have had a few users who have accused everyone of dissing Coulter to be a liberal. If you did not see those kinds of posts early in this thread, I'll be happy to post the links.
I think it's fair for Rabinowitz to focus soley on Ann's treatment of McCarthyism--didn't someone here say that around 100 pages of "Treason" dealt with him? That seems like it's a major part of her book, and perhaps Rabinowitz is operating on the theory that if Ann is noticably sloppy on some major points, then how can we trust her on the minor points? What about the many people here who have attacked "Living History" because it left out details about Monica and other Clinton flings? In the span of 50 years, those events took up a very small time in Hillary's life, so should we excuse her for omitting some of the scandals of Billy's administration? Of course not. Her book, despite all the boring ass details of her girlhood, was a polemic defending the legitimacy of Billy's administration. Therefore, her omissions were dishonest.
Your comparison to Caesar is a bad one. Someone can write about the Gallic wars without mentioning Caesar's private life. But if you're going to defend McCarthy's political record, then you had better mention the major highlights of it...just as we should expect Hillary to at least mention the many scandals of Bill if she expects us to believe that Bill was a great president. I bet if McCarthy was one of the senators who went on the ATTACK against those Nazis that Ann would've put that in "Treason" in a heartbeat.
BTW, about your question of how much I know about McCarthy: He's not my specialty, which is why I've limited my judgment of him on this thread. I'm mainly concerned with why Ann tried to whitewash his history. I don't need to be alive during the 50s to be interested in Ann's attempt to defend him. Nor does being alive then make me an automatic expert about McCarthy (is John Kerry automatically an expert on war?).