For this reason, the concluding chapter, which urges urgent intervention to stop environmental degradation, felt out of place--though it is the most thoughtful and persuasive such argument I have seen.
Because of this, the concluding chapter felt out of place.
You also noted early on that some of the mixedness of Eleanor's relationship with FDR was lost in Volume 2 . I liked this book better than the first, but I think you're right.