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10 Most Harmful Books
This is the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries list from HumanEvents.com, and was compiled by a panel of 15 conservative scholars. Those that I have read are marked with a * at the end of the listing. Those Moira has read are marked with a * at the end of the listing.
(I take it as a challenge to complete the list!)
- Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto * *
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf *
- Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao *
- Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male * *
- John Dewey, Democracy and Education
- Karl Marx, Das Kapital *
- Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique * *
- Auguste Compte, Introduction to Positive Philosophy *
- Freiderich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil *
- John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
And the honorable mentions:
- Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb
- V. I. Lenin, What is to be Done
- Theodor Adorno, Authoritarian Personality
- John Stuart Mill, On Democracy *
- B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity
- Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence
- Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life
- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species *
- Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization
- Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Soviet Communism: A New Civilization
- Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa * *
- Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed *
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex * *
- Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks
- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring * *
- Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth
- Sigmund Freud, Introduction to Psychoanalysis *
- Charles Reich, The Greening of America
- Club of Rome, The Limits to Growth
- Charles Darwin, Descent of Man