Goodreads really needs a 2.5 star rating. Because while I'm glad I read this book, and I don't want to harm it by giving it 2 stars, man it could have been so much better. A triple biography like this (practically quadruple, when you consider how much attention is paid to King Edward) should have been scrambling for room, stuffed beyond the capacity of its page limit. Instead, I thought it frequently stumbled into awkward, boring repetition. When Carter is profiling the unique psychological shortcomings of each leader, the story is engaging and informative. But so often, it just resorts to and endless listing of all the times they each changed their mind, or exchanged meaningless correspondence.