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I just picked up my copy of Treason yesterday - I plan to read it real soon, but I feel like I know the basic gist already.

As I've said before the ideas in the book are not new -
Ann's contribution is making them available to the masses. And as is often the case that is at least as important if not more important than coming up with the ideas in the first place. My hunch is that this book is going to end up as one of those books that matters - I can see the change happening already. Before this book the commie-left would always hold up their false cloak of patriotism - would always say that they're only speaking up because they "love their country so much" and that that's the point living in America anyway and "how dare you question my patriotism". The usual crap. Now after Ann's book, people are willing to stand up and say that the Daschles and the Gephardts and the Clintons don't love their country at all - in fact they hate it and are trying to destroy it or turn it into something it was never meant to be. And I think that's huge.

I think one of the next books I'm going to read is "Witness" by Whitaker Chambers. I heard someone call Ann on a call-in show and say he'd read it 7 times and that it was the "book of the century". Ann said he'd get no argument from her (and that "Treason" was #2 ha-ha).

Chambers is the intellectual Godfather of Buckley, McCarthy, Nixon and probably many others. Probably the Great-Godfather of Ann. I feel like I need to read his book which many have called a masterpiece.