Back to Basics for the Republican Party Book

So, I'm FINALLY done with this book. It was long, the print was tiny, and the sentences were such that any miniscule distraction meant you had to start the paragraph over again. Sometimes I spent my whole lunch break on two pages.
For these reasons, the book was equal parts fascinating and frustrating. I'm all for interesting nonfiction, but isn't there some line to walk on the entertaining side of scholarly? Here's a typical sentence: "The economic and social interests of many figures lay precisely in eluding discovery in order to exploit for their own selfish ends the possibilities of unstable and illegible identity as well as the ambiguous relationship between the social exchanges of respectable society and the economic exchanges of the marketplace..."
Of course, none of those words is unintelligible on its own, but combined into a four-line sentence, followed by another four-line sentence, and another, all crammed together in one paragraph in ten point font... it's what gives nonfiction it's "bad name".
Five stars for the information and the great firsthand sources he used, and three stars for the presentation. ...Granted, it might have been much easier to follow if I'd done all my reading in a silent room after meditating.