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Demonic and The Underrated Ann
Pajamas Media ^ | June 27, 2011 | Andrew Klavan
Posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 8:02:08 AM by Kaslin
It seems strange to say that Ann Coulter is underrated. Every book she writes is a bestseller her new one, Demonic, is no exception. When shes on tour, you can barely turn on a TV or radio without seeing her face, hearing her voice.
I was in a restaurant with her once and she was so swamped with admiring members of the public I felt like I was part of a movie stars entourage.(I dont really do entourages, but if I had to be part of one, I was glad it was hers.) All the same, I dont think she gets the respect she deserves...-- snip --
...When Ann Coulter is good and I think Demonic is one of her best she is doing something special and doing it at a level that makes her unique.
Its not just the heavyweight research or the fearless disdain for received opinion. Her flexible, sardonic, rigorous and unabashedly jokey prose creates an iconic voice that humanizes her polemic and compels you to engage with her specific and original worldview.
People are wont to say off-handedly "you either love her or hate her," but they dont seem to understand that thats a writerly achievement of the first water.
Demonic makes an argument more complex than her other books.
Books like Slander and Treason tended to marshal legions of facts and examples in support of ideas like "the mainstream media lie," or "liberals are unpatriotic."
Demonic revives the 19th century science of "crowd psychology," and argues that left-wing politics descends from the brutal and ultimately enslaving mob madness of the French Revolution whereas conservatives have inherited the mantle of the American founders, who feared the mob above all.
The book operates like a prosecutor building a case and even at its most one-sided, is often scarily convincing.
The chapters in Part III on violence are brilliant.
Had I hair, it wouldve stood on end...
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