Worse, his stupid book was (and remains) ranked ahead of PHUSA. (Oh, never mind, that's mercantilist/zero sum thinking! But I still want to see our book ranked ahead of his!)
But I still want to see our book ranked ahead of his!
Well I've done my part.
The problem with the Jared Diamond's of the world is they keep looking for the ONE reason why empires fail, or something happened, when (IMO) it's usually several things going wrong at the same time combined with someone (or a group of someones) screwing up.