The article author's book *1491* is a few hundred pages of equally fascinating and insightful information. It's one of the best non-fiction books I've read.

*Aztec* was wonderfully researched, but again and again it fell into cruelty porn. The author's "loving care" went largely into extended scenes that layered emotional cruelty onto physical cruelty, until the reader really regrets being born into a world where such things can even be imagined. It was disturbing (I read…