Clearly well-researched, but ends up being very dense and repetitive. It's also burdened by the author's ideological blinkers: conservatives have no real political convictions, just a vacuous desire for power at any costs, while Democrats are slavish devotees of big government who are "controlled" by their left wing (a claim he makes with zero evidence. Rule and Ruin is a great resource if you are interested in the movers and shakers of moderate Republicanism, but little else.