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Message: [QUOTE="boba, post: 2950068, member: 1556"] Ron Chernow's biographies are usually good. Jared Diamond falls into that category of dangerous writers. Some (nonfiction) writers are usually correct but uninteresting and others are usually wrong but always interesting. Now Diamond isn't dissembling or otherwise feeding bs, it's just that he has a habit of finding things in the data that just are not there. Gladwell falls into that category too, except he is also a first class fabulist. Elizabeth Wayland Barber's Women's Work is an interesting book that few read. Not sure if it is on an audio format. Any of her scholarship is interesting and probably on a topic that you are unfamiliar. [/QUOTE]