I'm not a youtube denizen, so missed out on the heyday of Breadtube fame for Zoe Baker / AnarchoZoe (formerly AnarchoPac) and didn't quite know what to expect from the book and her writing style. I must say that I enjoyed Means and Ends in it's treatment of the history of anarchism through contemporary ideas from the collectivist / communist movements of the 1860's through 1940 or so in the US and Europe (the stated period/location of the books coverage). The book carefully, patiently and (I think) respectfully explains conflicts and developments through what she and the authors sourced refer to as mass anarchism (the wikipedia for the term points to the Social Anarchism page). Zoe contributes to the blog for the anarcho-syndicalist ICL-CIT (a split from the IWA-AIT in 2018 that includes the IWW, CNT, FAU, USI, FORA, IP and ESE). The format of the book, employing authors to speak about the positions and visions anarchists have taken at the time and their own developments through positions (like Johann Mosts move from Insurrectional Anarchism in the 1880s to Mass Anarchism in the last decades of his life, or the reversed move by Luigi Galleani), an explanation of the development of Syndicalism to Revolutionary Syndicalism to Syndicalism Plus and Anarcho-Syndicalism, conflicts over The Platform versus the Synthesis, the role of Propaganda By The Deed... The book is a good, straightforward if a bit long: the length and repetition in simple terms are things i found helpful to settle into the ideas. Also, I had an advanced reader copy from the publisher, so there may have been further editing and clarification as this copy appears more husky than the ones I've seen at the bookstore. I would suggest this book for anarchists (particularly in the US context) looking to get a better grasp on some of the big points in anarchist history, some of the important thinkers and some degree of understanding of core concepts engaged by many comrades elsewhere.