Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Got this from Human Events Online via the Law Librarian Blog. Human Events have asked 15 conservatives in America to list the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Surprise, surprise, guess who's number 1? (also included are 13 Honorable Mentions at the end of the article).


Number 1: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels



Number 2: Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler



Number 3: Quotations from Chairman Mao by Mao Zedong



Number 4: The Kinsey Report by Alfred Kinsey



Number 5: Democracy and Education by John Dewey



Number 6: Das Kapital by Karl Marx



Number 7: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan



Number 8: The Course of Positive Philosophy by Auguste Comte



Number 9: Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietzsche



Number 10: General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes






Honorable Mentions include:

The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner
Reflections on Violence by Georges Sorel
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead
Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader
Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
The Greening of America by Charles Reich
Descent of Man by Charles Darwin

2 Comments:

Blogger Edmund Yeo said...

I vote Da Vinci Code.

9:15 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

good call, but DVC was published in 2003, i think. hence, 21st century...

9:28 am  

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