Michael Albertus, Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determined the Fate of Societies (2025)

This is not a bad book. I learned some interesting facts about parts of the world that I don't know well. For example, I learned that many dictatorships in Latin America made efforts to redistribute land from the wealthy to the poor. I learned that the Aboriginal movement in Australia has been much more successful than the Native American movement in the US. Down under, Aborigines now lay claim to more than half the land, albeit in remote and desert-y places. Nonetheless, this is an extremely disappointing book, certainly one of the worst we've read in my Zoom book club.