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2023-07-07 Started reading this a few days ago after seeing at least two significant reviews that seemed to get important parts of the story wrong. I am "friends" with both authors (on various social media), have met one in person and have significant respect for both. The review I read just did not seem to mesh with what I thought the book authors would write, and it is a very important topic to me, so I had to get into it.

It is slow going.
Not because the writing is bad, but because of what the authors are saying, how controversial the topics are and how precise they are attempting to write.
I have been studying this subject for over 45 years, so I have a huge amount of time, energy and overall commitment to the ideas presented here.

So far, some is right on the money.
Some if off the mark.
Some ignores, (purposely?) important ideas/people/books or at least gives them short-shrift.

More comments to come as I keep reading. Only ~40 pages in so far.
2023-10-11 I'm about 80 pages into it so far. Getting better, but still slow going. The footnotes are generally very helpful... but add to how slow I can go. But they are sometimes quite revealing in what they say or don't say. I have many notes scribbled in the margins. This is going to be a tough book to review. I don't even know if I accept the basic framework of topics that the authors use to explain/judge libertarian ideas and writers.