The parts I found most interesting was the history portion and how we got where we are today (hint: I think Woodrow Wilson is part of the problem). I thought that in terms of the modern presidents he remained fairly non-partisan with a fairly robust criticism of Bush and the Republican congress especially in regard to medicare prescription drugs. He was surprisingly fair to Clinton and almost implies that impeachment and perjury blocked needed entitlement reform during the late nineties.

The accounting section is intriguing, but the technical components didn't seem to fit with the rest of the book, but was probably a good edition to fill out the information in the book.

The part I found interesting, but I disagree with the most is his policy prescriptions. He spends a fair amount of time discussing items such as term limits, limiting the ability of Congress to campaign and adding Constitutional elements to curb Congressional irresponsibility. Although I think those might be effective I believe in going the other direction, for example, Tom Delay has suggested repealing direct election of Senators and increasing the size of the House of Representatives which I think would be more effective. Beck did propose something that I think might work is having Congress meet for shorter periods of time, and if you look at successful state legislatures they use a similar model.

Overall I would say this is a mixed bag in terms of policy prescriptions, but is worth a quick read for the concise information and a non-technical 10000 foot view of how the United States has gotten into its current position.