Status Updates From Bobby BlueJacket: The Tribe...

once you get used to his voice, not really brilliant, but on occasion surprising...most importantly I would say honest, and just shy enough of master of self-insight for this extra layer I speak of to exist.

Throughout the author uses repeated and extensive quotes from the subject, and that makes a great deal of sense, is a sort of revelation of a surprise layer of history in my view, now that I am relatively near the end (the actual end of the text is page 640 something) and can see what the overall effect is. This tactic works because the subject is a good enough writer, at first surprisingly good, but

I really don't know what page I'm on but the book is still taking unexpected turns and leading me into new zones of history without undue force.

Here's the hard part for the historian: presumably the lead up to the central crime of the book is long over and now we got the guy in prison and he's no Cool Hand Luke, rather a reforming con coming into his own.
So far, so good. Books like these when they are well written provide a scattering of knowledge you maybe could have or would have done without, but in good hands, like Daley's you keep learning.

"Thomas Jefferson, governor of Virginia during the war, wanted to see the Ohio Shawnees exterminated or driven from their lands, and he advocated turning other tribes against them."

"Then they'd assign you a Christian name. Mine turned out to be Fred."

"Car crashes were common. It was a brand-new way to do die."

Those were in the first 43 pages of the book, part of an excellent contextul history.