I don't usually read nonfiction, but I requested this book because I'm interested in the National Park System and the blurb intrigued me. Unfortunately, I ended up with a DNF at about 1/3 of the way through. I think that the subject material certainly has the potential to be interesting, but there was too much information thrown in too fast, which made it a little hard to follow and hard to really get into the book. Additionally, the author's tone lets a lot of his personal bias slip into his writing. It does not feel like an impartial telling of his truth, but rather one man's manifesto about how he is right and the rest of the world is behind for not seeing the truth, which is a bit offputting.

I wanted to like this book more. Even though I am a fan of the National Park Service, I was open to the idea that there was a seedy underbelly to expose. However, the author's tone in the first chapter makes it seem more like a conspiracy theory than a series of actual events. Unfortunately, I was not able to shake it off as I continued to read what promised to be a riveting tale of corruption in one of the United States's most respected federal agencies.