The Ten Most Harmful Books Of The 19th And 20th Centuries

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US political organisation Human Events asked 15 right wing scholars and politicians to help compile a list of the most harmful books of the 19th and 20th centuries. Given the spiel on the website, the chosen books are presumably deemed harmful because they have threatened "free enterprise, limited government and… American freedom". Listed below are the top ten most harmful books followed by twenty honourable mentions, also in order of the number of votes received.

  1. 1.
    The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
    by Karl Marx

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  2. 2.
    Mein Kampf
    by Adolf Hitler

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  3. 3.
    Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
    by Mao Tse-Tung

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  4. 4.
    Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
    by Alfred Charles Kinsey

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  5. 5.
    Democracy And Education
    by John Dewey

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  6. 6.
    Das Kapital
    by Karl Marx

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  7. 7.
    The Feminine Mystique
    by Betty Friedan

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  8. 8.
    Introduction to Positive Philosophy
    by Auguste Comte

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  9. 9.
    Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

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  10. 11.
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    The Population Bomb
    by Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich

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  11. 12.
    Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings
    by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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  12. 13.
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    The Authoritarian Personality (Studies in Prejudice)
    by Theodor W. Adorno

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  13. 14.
    On Liberty and The Subjection of Women (Penguin Classics)
    by John Stuart Mill

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  14. 15.
    Beyond Freedom & Dignity
    by B. F. Skinner

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  15. 17.
    The Promise of American Life
    by Herbert David Croly

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  16. 18.
    The Origin of Species, Revised Edition (Abridged)
    by Charles Darwin

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  17. 19.
    Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics)
    by Michel Foucault

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  18. 20.
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    Soviet Communism: a New Civilisation? in Two Volumes
    by Sidney And Beatrice Webb

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  19. 22.
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    Unsafe at Any Speed
    by Ralph Nader

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  20. 23.
    The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Simone De Beauvoir

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  21. 24.
    Selections from the Prison Notebooks
    by Antonio Gramsci

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  22. 25.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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  23. 26.
    The Wretched of the Earth
    by Frantz Fanon

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  24. 27.
    A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
    by Sigmund Freud

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  25. 28.
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    The Greening of America
    by Charles A. Reich

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  26. 29.
    The Limits to Growth
    by D.H. Meadows

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  27. 30.
    The Descent of Man (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Darwin

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Created by robwatt on Jun 25, 2007.
 

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