What is the author's style in The Fate of Liberty by Mark E. Neely, Jr.?

Neely does not state for whom he writes, but produces a simple, lively narrative non-specialists interested in history can follow readily. Some passages presume familiarity with persons and events that requiring look up online or in reference books on the Civil War and for those who object to such exercises, this book will prove frustrating. Neely seeks to overturn myths and stereotypes and succeeds. He also seeks to let participants in the Civil War, great and small alike, to have their stories be known. He succeeds in this even more admirably.