I went in with low expectations of this book--after a while many popular histories of things about presidents read the same, and I've read many of them--but this was a surprise, mostly in how quickly and easily it read. It does suffer in some ways from that popular white history trope of the odd dive into a tidbit that really isn't necessary to the story, but is still potentially interesting to the reader (all of the details about newspaper battles were not necessarily critical to the entire story, I would argue, but I get why they're in there, for example.) Overall it was, like I said, a quick and easy read, and fairly enjoyable for a book in this kind of genre. If these kinds of books are already your thing, you'll definitely enjoy this!