Tell yourself the truth…

Book review:

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

by Jared Diamond (b1937)

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019

Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998.

502 pages.

Diamond delivers a knock-out with every one of his books. Upheaval is no exception.

Diamond fully backs up his frank and frightening assessment of the United States in its current crises.

America and Americans have many strengths, including our geographic stronghold and our democratic traditions. We’re facing many fault lines, not least of which is our increasingly paralyzing political polarization and refusal to embrace sensible compromise to get good things done for all Americans. Repeat for effect.

Upheaval is not a feel-good book. It is a call to action, with a credible road map and many reasons to fear our failure to face up to our crises.

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Book review: Shakespeare’s Wife

Germaine Greer went overboard a bit…

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