So tell me /his/, is this any good or is it Guns, Germs

The part about the Natufians is a huge ass-pull, but the general thesis is sound.

>>2167228
>Guns, Germs and Steel-tier?
That book was excellent though, you'd have to be a racist to hate it.

>>2167228
The papers are better

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I've read Guns, Germs, and Steel. To me it's mostly conjecture and unsupported theories. Not that I'm saying GGS is God-tier garbage, it's got some good stuff in it, but The Dictator's Handbook goes way more indeph than GGS and hits everything from economics, to phycology, to culture, politics, and cold logic. It talks about why people failed and what made them fail, and most importantly why people succeeded and what made them succeed. I've never heard of or read Why Nations Fail but it would be hard to top The Dictator's Handbook in how well written and detailed it is. Plus TDH uses real life examples to help explain and support the theories that it talks about.

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>>2167261
>seen as a racist on a Korean woodblock forum

Oh no, we wouldn't want that

>>2167261
No you dislike a book and it's presentation without disagreeing with the main thesis. My main gripe is that it is a overly ambitious and goes into things that it probably shouldn't like China versus Europe.