How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)

The World According to Ann Coulter

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Elizabeth White

Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

Welcome to the world of Ann Coulter. With her monumental best-sellers Treason, Slander, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Coulter has become the most recognized and talked-about conservative intellectual in years - and certainly the most controversial.

Now, in How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), which is sure to ignite impassioned debate, she offers her most comprehensive analysis of the American political scene to date. With incisive reasoning, refreshing candor, and razor-sharp wit, she reveals just why liberals have got it so wrong.

In this powerful and entertaining book, which draws on her weekly columns, Coulter ranges far and wide. No subject is off-limits, and no comment is left unsaid.

After all, she writes, “Nothing too extreme can be said about liberals because it’s all true.” How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) offers Coulter’s unvarnished take on:

• The essence of being a liberal: “The absolute conviction that there is one set of rules for you, and another, completely different set of rules for everyone else.”
• John Kerry: “A reporter asked Kerry, ‘Are you for or against gay marriage?’ As usual, his answer was, ‘Yes.’ ”
• Her 9/11 comments: “I am often asked if I still think we should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity. The answer is: Now more than ever!”
• The state of the Democratic Party: “Teddy Kennedy crawls out of Boston Harbor with a quart of Scotch in one pocket and a pair of pantyhose in the other, and Democrats hail him as their party’s spiritual leader.”
• Her philosophy for arguing with liberals: “Tough love, except I don’t love them. My ‘tough love’ approach is much like the Democrats’ ‘middle-class tax cuts’ - everything but the last word.”
• The “Treason Lobby”: “Want to make liberals angry? Defend the United States.”

In this full-on Coulterpalooza, you’ll find the real, uncensored Ann Coulter. A special concluding chapter even includes the pieces that squeamish editors refused to publish - “what you could have read if you lived in a free country,” says Coulter.

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) is a stunning reminder of why Ann Coulter’s commentary has achieved must-read status.

“A fluent polemicist with a gift for Menckenesque invective...and she can harness such language to subtle, syllogistic argument.” (Washington Post Book World)

“Ann Coulter is a trailblazer.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

“She can zing one-liners faster than Zeus can throw lightning bolts.” (Kansas City Star)

©2004 Ann Coulter (P)2004 Books on Tape

Critic reviews

"A great deal of research supports Ms. Coulter's wisecracks." (New York Times)

What a

Ann did a great job with this book, she sure can write!

Loved it

Coulter just cracks me up. It's kind of a guilty pleasure though 'cause she spews the venom with such zeal. Though she has her tongue firmly planted in her cheek the truth is there. If you lean leftward you may find her style objectionable. She is entertaining and that is how I approached this work. I wasn't disappointed.

Fun and informative

I don't agree with everything she had to say but it was a fun book that stimulated alot of thought. I would recommend this book to all. If you lean to the right, it will be fun. If you lean to the left, it will only anger you. But hearing the other side is good for you.

Funny if you don't take it seriously

Pundits at either extreme end of the political spectrum spout all kinds of nonsense, useless rhetoric and insults. Some are very straight forward about it and some do it with real style as does Ann Coulter. If this book were seen more as "political humor" than some kind of serious critique of the liberal mindset, I'd give it a 5 without hesitation, because Coulter is very witty and delivers many memorable lines, but her conclusions are rarely based on any kind of evidence and serious analysis of readily available evidence. This is a very funny book as long as you don't take it seriously.

funny...but....

Coulter has a knack for delivering memorable punches and articulating amuzing, bruising ironies. But while there is no end to the number of internal inconsistencies I hear in liberal rhetoric, I have to admit I'm a mostly embarrassed to have Ann as a mouthpiece for modern conservatives. The depth of her reflection seems shallow compared to many other conservative and libertarian pundits - I certainly wouldn't pull out her quotes in serious political conversations with friends. I'd be taken down for hypocrisy in twenty different ways. I wish she could combine her lively style with more authenticity. She seems to be less about factual reporting and careful, synthetic analysis and more about pushing emotional hot-buttons without even establishing a factual ground for doing so. If you really want to talk to a liberal, you need to be able to communicate that you are listening to them and understand them. If you talk to a liberal the way Coulter does, well - you'll have many fewer friends and you'll never really persuade anyone of anything. Persuasion is one of the most important arts of our time. It involves highly skilled communication. Coulter bludgeons this art. So yeah, I chuckle. But I'm deeply disturbed that she's reinforcing the very attitudes and perspectives that make Americans a dysfunctional citizenship with a dysfunctional government.

could have been an essay

I lean to the left, but always appreciate hearing the other side. This book could have easily been just a short, simple witty essay by an acerbic writer. But instead it droned on and on and loses the listener soon into the book. I agree -- she was probably trying to fulfill her contract with the publisher.

Ann hits the liberals where it hurts, the truth!!

Ann Coulter has put together a collection of her best articles on political subjects that will make even the most elite liberal squint their eyes and groan with the truth being revealed. She packs a punch with dry wit and pure logic. This work leaves the reader laughing and crying. Liberal inconsistancy and power grabbing would be funny if it weren't so serious and potentially dangerous to America. Ann Coulter has written a true resource for all of us to use against the left.

Mindblowing

First, I am a Conservative and a huge fan of Ann Coulter. This book was nothing more than a series of excuciatingly dull defences of Ms. Coulter's from attacks from various media flacks. It was also a series of her past columns, which did not give it current status since it went back for at least 5 years. The narration, not by Ms. Coulter, was leaden and dull. It went on and on and on and on. She spent a half hour on subjects that I could have dealt with in 5 minutes. The book is bad, bad, bad. I couldn't wait for it to be over. Still, I am a fan of Ms. Coulter.

2020 In retrospect

I am quite late to the party from the standpoint of current events and listening to this book at this time.

One thing that didn’t change, which was refreshing was that a lot of the opinions were based on fact which is something I can’t seem to find among my ‘friends’ and peers especially the ones who work at and make a daily contribution to the Political Affairs desk at Facebook each and every day.

i’d love the chapter about the Civil War flag and the postwar reconstruction which was based in fact and really nailed it.

I will be reading a lot more Ann Coulter books in the future. And when I do finally meet her, I’m going to ask her on a real old fashion date.

Way to go Ms. Coulter!

Again, Ann does not dissapoint

Audible should be able to cross-reference the one star listeners to see if they actually bought, let alone listened to the book, I doubt it 'cause this book is HOT! There is no other author that I await more than Coulter because of her biting and witty style. If you are a liberal let me give you a suggestion, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! You will come away with two black eyes and a bloody nose, not to mention the hurt "feelings. She is vicious, pulls no punches and best of all, spits on political correctness.

No nonsense men who are sick of walking on eggshells will love this book. She lets the cat out of the bag on her debate strategies which many, go along to get along politicians unfortunately ignore.

I caught myself laughing out loud on many occasions as she taunts the left with her well thought out and logical arguments.