This book has a lot of interesting information about how the states ended up looking like they do (and I'd never noticed before a lot of the strange little extra pieces added to or taken away from certain state borders). That said, I really can't fathom why the author chose to organize alphabetically a book that is effectively about geography. Instead of discussing, for example, the borders of New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine all in one section, the author goes alphabetically by state name. This means every other sentence is, "see p. X, MAINE" or "see p. Y, VERMONT," and the reader ends up flipping back and forth to see the relevant diagrams. Also, the book ends up being incredibly repetitive considering the borders of, say, Colorado are also necessarily discussed in the sections talking about the borders of Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. Time to go back to eighth-grade geography, Mark Stein -- you have an interesting book that loses all its appeal because its organization makes it cumbersome.