This was fine, but just fine. I get that this is a more public facing book of academic research, but I think the argument is oversimplified for that audience, and that it therefore misses the most interesting parts. Maybe some of the footnotes will pan out for me, but it just wasn't that great at any of the things I was reading it for, and the other arguments were not novel or challenging in my view. A book that probably needs to exist in this plainly spoken form, but isn't great.