Human Events's "Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries"

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HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated. A title received a score of 10 points for being listed No. 1 by one of our panelists, 9 points for being listed No. 2, etc. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. 1 listing.

  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.
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    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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  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
    by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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  11. 11.
    THJE POPULATION BOMB

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  12. 12.
    What Is to Be Done?
    by Nikolai Chernyshevsky

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

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  14. 14.
    On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Stuart Mill

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

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  16. 16.
    The Promise of American Life
    by Herbert Croly

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  17. 17.
    The Origin Of Species
    by Charles Darwin

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  20. 20.
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    Soviet communism: A new civilization?
    by Sidney Webb

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  22. 22.
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    Unsafe at Any Speed
    by Ralph Nader

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

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  24. 24.
    Prison Notebooks, Volume 1
    by Antonio Gramsci

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  25. 25.
    Prison Notebooks, Volume 2
    by Antonio Gramsci

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  26. 26.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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  27. 27.
    The Wretched of the Earth
    by Frantz Fanon

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  28. 28.
    A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
    by Sigmund Freud

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  29. 29.
    The Greening of America
    by charles a. reich

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  31. 31.
    The Descent of Man (Great Minds Series)
    by Charles Darwin

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MestnyiGeroi
New York City

Untitled — 2 weeks ago

A hilarious list, the small-minded, obscurantist, and just plain ignorant mindset behind which reveals the far more “dangerous” qualities lurking in the minds of many conservatives.

Jun 18, 01:06PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

mizoguchi

Untitled — 1 year ago

Dumb dumb dumb- no doubt Darwin is too dangerous cos creationism has more scientific evidence? Though in fact evolution by natural selection was Alfred Russel Wallace’s theory too

Jul 01, 01:17PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

wickedraven
Istanbul

this is so stupid — 2 years ago

instead of adding books of nietszche and freud you should add bible,koran, pentateuch and etc!! so dumb and foolish!

Jun 29, 02:15AM | 2 comments | Reply to this

Michael Gorsuch
New York City

Where's the Bible? — 2 years ago

Please add the Christian Bible to this list… and the Koran… and the Torah…

Nov 25, 06:44PM | 4 comments | Reply to this

Elderbear is hibernating ...
Loma Linda

What Maggiem Said ... — 2 years ago

Truly a dumb list!!!

I can understand that some would find the writings of Marx to contain ideas that make them uncomfortable … but to consider John Stuart Mill as somebody whose ideas have damaged the world? I guess liberty is one of those “dangerous” ideas that needs to be suppressed.

Nov 04, 12:23AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

starlagurl
Ottawa

Did you read the intro? — 3 years ago

“a panel of 15 CONSERVATIVE scholars”

May 04, 09:12PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

maggiem
Detroit

Untitled — 3 years ago

Yeah, fuck Silent Spring! I hated nature anyway! Screw Unsafe at Any Speed! I liked it much better when companies could release shoddy unsafe products!

Seriously, this has got to be the dumbest list.

May 01, 10:49AM | 0 comments | Reply to this