This book is over 600 pages and took 10 years to write. I felt like it took 10 years to read. But it was the best book our club read in many years. The characters were so well drawn, the time line 1968 during the Chicago Democratic convention and 2011 went back an forth but was informative, dramatic and interesting. It took us 1 1/2 hours to discuss and barely got to all the great points. Definitely worth all the time to read.