It's a good book, but some may be turned off by the first chapter or so that reads like he's trying to rub his victories into the faces of his academic adversar

It's a good book, but some may be turned off by the first chapter or so that reads like he's trying to rub his victories into the faces of his academic adversaries. It had more than a little air of gloating to it, in my opinion, and the book would have been better without that. (Though he spent considerable time on the earlier precedents for his work, which I had previously thought was entirely novel.)