> Isaacson’s latest book, coming, as it does, after This is the part that tripped me up at first. I kept grokking that as the his book being named Coming (and

> Isaacson’s latest book, coming, as it does, after This is the part that tripped me up at first. I kept grokking that as the his book being named Coming (and that the quote just had a capitalization error). This didn't make sense: > One of the surprising features of Isaacson’s latest book, <TITLE>, as it does, after his biography of Steve Jobs Other than that you just break it down like this: 1. The stuff between the emdashes is just an aside. It could have been in paranthesis, thought I'm not hip to the finer points of when to separate with dashes vs. parenthesis. So you could rewrite it like this: > One of the surprising features of Isaacson’s latest book, coming, as it does, after his biography of Steve Jobs (who is generally, though not entirely correctly, understood to be the model of the radical (and congenitally irascible) American) is that it is a paean to cooperation, to the idea of force-multiplication through collective effort and, in particular, to the transformative power of the diamond triangle of industry, academia and government. Or even remove it entirely: > One of the surprising features of Isaacson’s latest book, coming, as it does, after his biography of Steve Jobs, is that it is a paean to cooperation, to the idea of force-multiplication through collective effort and, in particular, to the transformative power of the diamond triangle of industry, academia and government. 2. Those last clauses are just a list of ideas that are tied to the book. You could just grok it like so: > One of the surprising features of Isaacson’s latest book, coming, as it does, after his biography of Steve Jobs, is that it is a paean <LIST OF "to ..." CLAUSES EXPRESSING IDEAS IN THE BOOK>.