Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken he also accused her of citing passages out of context. The factual accuracy of Slander was called into question by then- comedian and author, later Democratic U.S. Bush was given unfair negative media coverage. In Slander, Coulter argues that President George W. Her second book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, published by Crown Forum in 2002, reached the number one spot on The New York Times non-fiction best seller list. It details Coulter's case for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Ĭoulter's first book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, was published by Regnery Publishing in 1998 and made The New York Times Bestseller list. BooksĪnn Coulter at the 2004 Republican National ConventionĬoulter is the author of twelve books, including many that have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with a combined 3 million copies sold as of May 2009. Coulter has, on occasion, in defense of her ideas, responded with inflammatory remarks toward hecklers and protestors who attend her speeches. During one appearance at the University of Arizona, a pie was thrown at her. In 2010, she made an estimated $500,000 on the speaking circuit, giving speeches on topics of modern conservatism, gay marriage, and what she describes as the hypocrisy of modern American liberalism. Coulter typically spends 6–12 weeks of the year on speaking engagement tours, and more when she has a book coming out. She also makes numerous public appearances, speaking on television and radio talk shows, as well as on college campuses, receiving both praise and protest. She idolized Clare Boothe Luce for her satirical style. I don't pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do". She is particularly known for her polemical style, and describes herself as someone who likes to "stir up the pot. Ĭoulter has written 12 books, and also publishes a syndicated newspaper column. She later became a litigator with the Center for Individual Rights. She handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan and helped craft legislation designed to expedite the deportation of aliens convicted of felonies. After a short time working in New York City in private practice, where she specialized in corporate law, Coulter left to work for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee after the Republican Party took control of Congress in 1994. CareerĪfter law school, Coulter served as a law clerk, in Kansas City, for Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Coulter will not confirm either date, citing privacy concerns.
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A driver's license issued several years later purportedly listed her birthdate as December 8, 1963. While she argued that she was not yet 40, The Washington Post columnist Lloyd Grove cited a birthdate of December 8, 1961, which Coulter provided when registering to vote in New Canaan, Connecticut, prior to the 1980 Presidential election, for which she had to be 18 years old to register. At Michigan, Coulter was president of the local chapter of the Federalist Society and was trained at the National Journalism Center. She graduated cum laude from Cornell in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1988, where she was an editor of the Michigan Law Review. While attending Cornell University, Coulter helped found The Cornell Review, and was a member of the Delta Gamma national sorority. Coulter graduated from New Canaan High School in 1980. Her family later moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where Coulter and her two older brothers, James and John, were raised. She has two older brothers: James, an accountant, and John, an attorney. Coulter's father attended college on the GI Bill, and would later idolize Joseph McCarthy. Her father's Irish ancestors emigrated during the famine -and became ship laborers, tilemakers, brickmakers, carpenters and flagmen. Ann Hart Coulter was born on December 8, 1961, in New York City, to John Vincent Coulter (1926–2008), an FBI agent from a working class Catholic Irish American and German American family in Albany, New York, and Nell Husbands Coulter (née Martin 1928–2009), who was born in Paducah, Kentucky.Ĭoulter's mother's ancestry has been traced back on both sides of her family to a group of Puritan settlers in Plymouth Colony, British America arriving on the Griffin with Thomas Hooker in 1633, and her father's family were Catholic Irish and German immigrants who arrived in America in the 19th century.
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