

The short essays, written throughout the 1980s and '90s, from the woman Coulter claims singlehandedly defeated the ERA, have snappy titles reminiscent of Coulter's recent Slanderīut lack substance, cohesion and contemporary knowledge. In this volume, her rhetoric has retained all of its harshness but lost its intellectual edge her writing and cant are murky and overwrought. Schlafly's conservative thinking might have been razor-sharp 38 years ago when she wrote her ideological groundbreaker A Choice Not an Echo. In her foreword, Coulter asserts that Gen-X conservative divas may have sprung from the femme fatale–cum–right-wing wellspring Schlafly established over four decades ago with her group, Eagle Forum.
