Contemporary accounts describe his voice as "high-pitched, almost scratchy." It would be nice if those who object to this portrayal would do a bit of fact-checking. That said, Mars Stanton's character seems a bit too extreme, the constant use of modern figures of speech is jarring and the attempted link to modern times (e.g. By references to shooting someone in the middle of a crowded street) are somewhat ham-fisted and entirely unnecessary. Still, the story is nicely nuanced and varied and the treatment of some characters to whom history has been unkind, like Mary Todd, is sympathetic, credible and adds to the engaging feeling of the whole.
