Finally, after months of drinking this book through a very thin straw, I'm done. The fact that I read it so slowly is no reflection on the readability of the book, but more on the amount of time I chose to spend on it, for whatever reason. It was well worth the read, but a bad side effect of reading it so slowly is that I've now lost track of what the book specifically had to say on many topics - the content is now installed in my brain as is any other general "knowledge". So, all I can offer here is the impression the book left on me. The book is an effective chronicle of the rise of the right in America over the past twenty years or so (though it digs much further back for the seeds of the rise). As a somewhat left-leaning centrist, I considered it to be pretty even-handed in its treatment of conservatives and liberals, which seems to be a rare thing these days.