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