I read this book in order toi write a book report about it for my AP history class. the book guves a very deatiled account of the brief life of the Free Soil party. I would say this book is long on evidence and short on conclusions. The author does a poor job of outlining main points or making them easy to grasp, so the main ideas tend to get lost in a sea of names and dates. Nonetheless, this book was painstakingly researched, and i liked thew way the author quoted liberally from newspaper articles and editorials of the time.