Brokaw versus Coulter

Finished Tom Brokaw's book Boom!, and now reading Ann Coulter's book Guilty. Although Brokaw's book kept my interest right up to the end, it would have been better if he would have interviewed someone like Coulter to get her perspective on the period he writes about, which starts with JFK's assassination and ends with Nixon's resignation, although he does write about the Clintons and George W. Bush. Brokaw uses his connections with the entertainment, environmental, civil rights, feminist and political arenas to write a kind of People Magazine history of the tumultuous era.

Coulter, on the other hand, slashes through media-generated stereotypes of "victim groups." She may have lost some of her popularity with conservatives this year by steadfastly supporting the candidacy of Mitt Romney in the Republican primaries, but in my opinion she remains among the best thinkers and most incisive analysts in the conservative movement.