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¡Adios, America! The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole Ann Coulter Regnery Publishing, 2015

Ann Coulter is a master at evoking a sprightly image, such as when she says "the fact that we have to be incessantly told how wonderful diversity is only proves that it's not. It's like listening to a waiter try to palm off the fish 'special' on you before it goes bad." Because she is so outspoken and defies the academic convention of euphemism and circumlocution, it is easy to suppose she's not a serious scholar. Her sprightliness, however, didn't deter Judge Richard Posner from naming her "one of the top 100 Public Intellectuals" in the United States.

When a subject of vital importance is married to serious scholarship, the result is a book worth taking very seriously, indeed. As to the subject here, it addresses the rapidly occurring substitution of Third World peoples in place of the historically European population of the United States. If "demography is destiny," the substitution defines the future of the United States, altering profoundly its culture and essence. As to the scholarship, Coulter's exhaustive care sets a standard for all serious students to emulate. She consults a variety of sources, but it is especially interesting to this reviewer how contemporary she is in her use of the internet goldmine. Several of her endnotes tell of her NEXIS searches, such as when she looks up beheadings in Mexico and the Arizona desert (often minimized or denied), and finds dozens of documents that would otherwise remain disconnected.

Because iAdios, America! covers so much ground, we will compartmentalize the discussion for purposes of this review:

The amount and types of immigration. For several years, it has been commonplace in the American media to speak of "11 million undocumented immigrants."4 Coulter thinks it strange that the reported total hasn't changed for a decade, despite the continuing flood. She gives her reasons for thinking the real number is 30 million, which seems far more likely. The Pew Research Center, she says, has concluded from census data that the United States has thus far "taken in more than one-quarter of Mexico's entire population."

There is little or no transparency about the immigration. "The government won't tell...