(3) Base Camp

As long as you can keep track of who's talking to whom—which…good luck—the text isn't too hard to follow. Even though they're politicians and lawyers, everyone's speaking pretty plain English.

Because it's a conversation among several people involved in the hearing, it helps a bunch to actually listen to the proceedings. The only difficulty lies in the fact that you need a decent background in history to understand what's going on.

Shmoop is all over it, as usual.