The author begins the story of Tilden like a novel, which I did not expect. My expectation was that it would be written in the typical expository style of a David McCullah, or Barbara Tuchman. It has numerous typos and repeated sentences, probably due to poor editing. The author also needed to present the unraveling of a complicated event more clearly. I found myself reading passages without comprehending their meaning. However poorly presented, this episode of history needs to be made common knowledge to all literate Americans.