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

  2. 2.
    Mein Kampf
    by Adolf Hitler

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

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

  5. 5.
    Democracy And Education
    by John Dewey

  6. 6.
    Das Kapital
    by Karl Marx

  7. 7.
    The Feminine Mystique
    by Betty Friedan

  8. 8.
    Introduction to Positive Philosophy
    by Auguste Comte

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

  10. 11.
    The Population Bomb
    by PAUL R. EHRLICH

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

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

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

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

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

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

  17. 19.

  18. 20.
    ?
    Soviet Communism : A New Civilisation?; Two Volume Set
    by Sidney; Webb, Beatrice Webb

  19. 22.
    ?
    Unsafe at Any Speed
    by Ralph Nader

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

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

  22. 25.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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

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

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

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

  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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