I carried my own bias into this reading this book, ie, I have very little respect for this former President. That said, the book was about what I expected, not very well written, lacking in historical insight and chock full of unsupported opinions. Most offensive is Carter's insistance in portraying that Palestine was some kind of autonomous entity prior to the Balfour declaration and the subsequent establishment of the Zionist state when the British rule ended in 1948. In fact, what is commonly referred to as historical Palestine had been for centuries a serfdom controlled by generations of elite Syrian families such as the Husseini clan. This fundamental inaccuracy makes most of Carter's statements downright laughable.