Typical Larson fare; lots of details and he does a decent job of weaving together his narrative threads, though it seems to have escaped him a little bit in the last few chapters--the choice to shift the focus so heavily onto the US's entrance into WWI seemed to me to be a bit unnecessary, or at least just disjointed from the rest of the book. I would have been more interested in a focused look at the court cases that followed, rather than the entrance into the war, but clearly he felt that was a more necessary thread to pick up.

I should note that Larson and I have fundamental differences in the way we approach history, and that many people enjoy his books. I appreciate his attempts to cite things, though I find his self-citation to be kind of laughable, given the other kinds of work he produces. There are just key differences in how I see historical practice and how he sees it that makes reading his work very difficult for me personally.