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iary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, which distributes many titles pleasing to its conservative boss, canceled Slander late in 2001. Her editor at HarperCollins had died, and no amount of hectoring could persuade the company to continue with the Coulter project he left behind. Several months later Crown Publishers bought her book. According to her worldview, of course, both Crown and its parent company, Random House, are “liberal,” and they have indeed published a wide variety of writers from Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer to Jesse Jackson and. . . Katie Couric. (They also happen to be owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.)
Before HarperCollins dumped Coulter, the censorious management of the National Review had already seized the opportunity to smother her. America’s leading conservative magazine dropped her column from its online edition after she made an infamous recommendation for dealing with Islamist terror: “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.” Comporting...