It was a really excellent book and helped me put many of the bizarre things that went on into a larger picture - and I bet this was especially true for people like you who lived through it in Boston.
I lived in Santa Rosa, CA, which had some truly gross and shocking gay “problems” involving its own bishop. Since his “problems” actually got to the point of being criminal acts, he was forced to leave the diocese. However, California in general was riddled with homosexual bishops, and this was one of the things that kept the seminaries bad and enabled the corrupt priests to run wild (including a certain SoCal bishop...). But nothing was ever done about them by Rome.
Here in Florida, where I live now, we have a bishop (Lynch of Tampa St Pete’s) who settled a sexual harrassment suit filed by a male employee...was out of the country at Easter because Terri Schiavo was being killed at that point and he didn’t want his clergy to force him to say something that might offend his pro-death Scientologist buddies (in any case, he forbade all priests in his diocese to visit her or give her Communion), and has made it a point of pride that he halted Adoration in his diocese...and he’s still there. What is Rome thinking?
Someone on Fr. Z's blog linked to this CWN piece on The Rite for Degradation of a Bishop (though too many of ours seem to have a talent for "degrading" themselves!).
No more than a pipe dream today, though. See the later discussion here.