The excerpts in Team of Rivals make him sound like the most self-justifying, egotistical, blame-everyone-but-himself, credit-hogging peacock of a man who ever lived.

I can't imagine slogging through them all.

I don't know how his wife could stand reading those. Did she just file them away without subjecting herself to actually reading them?

Or maybe they were largely fine and Goodwin just picked up the very worst bits? But those very worst bits are bad.