Coulter grew up in New Caanan, Connecticut. She fondly recollects arguing with her family about politics and religion as a form of entertainment, sometimes around the dinner table. <ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1688|title="''Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right'' by Ann Coulter"|accessdate=January 1, 2010 |last=Lamb |first=Brian |date=August 11, 2002| |work=Booknotes}}</ref>She also recalls her first encounter with liberal politics: | Coulter grew up in New Caanan, Connecticut. She fondly recollects arguing with her family about politics and religion as a form of entertainment, sometimes around the dinner table. <ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1688|title="''Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right'' by Ann Coulter"|accessdate=January 1, 2010 |last=Lamb |first=Brian |date=August 11, 2002| |work=Booknotes}}</ref>She also recalls her first encounter with liberal politics: |