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

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.

(found at: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=7591)
1. The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
by Karl Marx
  
2.
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 Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
  
3. Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
by Mao Tse-Tung
  
4.
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 Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
by Alfred Charles Kinsey
  
5. Democracy And Education
by John Dewey
  
6. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 3 (Penguin Classics)
by Karl Marx
  
7. The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
  
8. Introduction to Positive Philosophy
by Auguste Comte
  
9. Beyond Good And Evil
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  
10. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series)
by John Maynard Keynes
  
11. THJE POPULATION BOMB  
12. What Is to Be Done?
by Nikolai Chernyshevsky
  
13.
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 The Authoritarian Personality (Studies in Prejudice)
by Theodor W. Adorno
  
14. On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics)
by John Stuart Mill
  
15. Beyond Freedom & Dignity
by B. F. Skinner
  
16. The Promise of American Life
by Herbert Croly
  
17. The Origin Of Species
by Charles Darwin
  
18. Reflections on Violence (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)
by Georges Sorel
  
19. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
by Michel Foucault
  
20.
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 Soviet communism: A new civilization?
by Sidney Webb
  
21. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Perennial Classics)
by Margaret Mead
  
22.
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 Unsafe at Any Speed
by Ralph Nader
  
23. The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Simone De Beauvoir
  
24. Prison Notebooks, Volume 1
by Antonio Gramsci
  
25. Prison Notebooks, Volume 2
by Antonio Gramsci
  
26. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
27. The Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon
  
28. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
by Sigmund Freud
  
29. The Greening of America
by charles a. reich
  
30.
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 Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind  
31. The Descent of Man (Great Minds Series)
by Charles Darwin
  
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Created by starlagurl on Apr 17, 2006.