A review by namelessninja
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond

informative slow-paced

4.0

I really enjoy Jared Diamond's writing and his previous books have been extremely interesting and fascinating. Upheaval has several interesting chapters and parts, but seems to drag on in the last third of the book as points of the book are rehashed over and over again. If you are not already interested in the topic and the examples used within the book, this could be an extremely tough read or book to complete. By his own admission, Diamond establishes the need for a more thorough examination of nations dealing with crisis, which could really add something to the ideas that Diamond shares in his book regarding how nations deal with their problems.