And then there are those who can write quite well and be accurte and informative to boot; https://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/0393317552

Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond has always impressed me as a very fine synthesis of human history. And there are lots o folks, perhaps not quit a brilliant, who communicate quite well
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