Update and Literary Complaint

Well, the deed is done! We have very sadly cancelled our reservation in Gulf Shores. But not before finding a big-enough house to rent on Douglas Lake east of Knoxville for the same time period. And I think all our group is going to be able to come - even the folks from Texas. I'm just relieved the decisions are made and carried out.
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I've been wanting to read Robert Caro's Master of the Senate, about LBJ's years in the US Senate. I've always heard that it was also a great history of the institution of the Senate and the way it works. It finally became available on Kindle, and I got it last week. I've only gotten through the Introduction and am into Chapter One. The history is fascinating! But I'm not sure I'm going to be able to read this book.

Does this man not have an editor???!!!?!?! I've just come across this ONE sentence!!!! Don't feel obligated to read the whole thing.

This sentence isn't even the only one in the paragraph! If this whole book is filled with these, there's no way I'll be able to wade through the convoluted prose. @#$%#%@

From Master of the Senate…

With the dawn of the new century, the public’s demand for an end to trusts and to the high protective tariff that was “the mother of trusts,” the tariff that robbed farmers and gouged consumers, and that had now been in place for almost fifty years - the demand, for legislation to ameliorate the injustices of the Industrial Revolution, that had begun to rise during the Gilded Age, only to be thwarted in part by the Senate - began to rise faster, fed by the books of Jacob Riis and Lincoln Steffens and Theodore Dreiser and a hundred other authors; by the new mass-circulation magazines, which, in the very first years of the twentieth century, educated America about the manipulations of Standard Oil and stirred its conscience to the horrors of sweatshops and child labor (in 1900, almost two million boys and girls were working, often alongside their mothers, all the daylight hours seven days a week in rooms in which there might not be a single window); and by the Populist and Grange movements, which gave farmers insight into the power that railroads and banks had over their lives, and into their helplessness against them.
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Changing sunset, Whistle Light, Grand Manan Island, NB