Note: This is neither a review (critical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses) of the author’s book…

…nor one of my “Digested Reads” (in which I attempt to give both myself and the reader as complete an experience of the author’s arguments as I can manage in as short a space as possible)…

…but an “Appreciation”— as in a quotation-heavy, somewhat-lengthy summary of and rumination upon some of the author’s key insights, but leaving out much of the particularity that make the book so worth reading…

Whereas a “Digested Read” might be seen, by those in a hurry, as a substitute for reading the……