This is my highest-rated book i'll not finish. Books such as this needn't be judged on their literary merits. While I'm not qualified as a literary critic, this book poses no stylistic nor comprehension challenge to any reader. Read it as an expose. Life is short; my reading further would be "preaching to the choir". I'm hanging it up at Chapter Nine: "Money is Speech: The Long Road to Citizens United". Having just finished the chapter on climate science denial, I advise sharing this with your friends who remain in that camp. I suspect this is a limited audience to those who pass by here. Presumably we are all readers, as are our friends and associates. Should you encounter such an ostrich, direct them to Mayer's "Dark Money". returnreturnWere my highlighter not electronic, I'd be on my third at this point in the book. I withhold the fifth star as i believe one's ratings should reflect a binomial distribution. My quota for the fifth star is exhausted by Menand's, The Metaphysical Club, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here. For a forecast of all this, you might try Confessions of an Economic Hitman.returnreturnSee my comments section or comments on my Opinion page in my weblog, under "Dark Money: the Koch brothers": applemcg.wordpress.com/category/opinion/