Harvest Empire started out excellent. It began and incredibly interesting and in depth history lesson into Latin roots.However, this book quickly turned into the Billy O'Reily of the Left Wing; it picks and chooses history. For example the book talks about how the Aztecs had slave based states, how the Seminoles took slaves, and how African tribes kept and sold rival tribe members as slaves. After briefly mentioning these facts the book goes into a hundred plus page explanation about how the USA committed so many horrible acts including slavery.