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Post by Charity on Jun 3, 2005 20:42:47 GMT -5
Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=75911. The Communist Manifesto 2. Mein Kampf 3. Quotations from Chairman Mao 4. The Kinsey Report 5. Democracy and Education 6. Das Kapital 7. The Feminine Mystique 8. The Course of Positive Philosophy 9. Beyond Good and Evil 10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money Honorable Mention These books won votes from two or more judges: The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich Score: 22 What Is To Be Done by V.I. Lenin Score: 20 Authoritarian Personality by Theodor Adorno Score: 19 On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Score: 18 Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner Score: 18 Reflections on Violence by Georges Sorel Score: 18 The Promise of American Life by Herbert Croly Score: 17 Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin Score: 17 Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault Score: 12 Soviet Communism: A New Civilization by Sidney and Beatrice Webb Score: 12 Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead Score: 11 Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader Score: 11 Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir Score: 10 Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci Score: 10 Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Score: 9 Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Score: 9 Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud Score: 9 The Greening of America by Charles Reich Score: 9 The Limits to Growth by Club of Rome Score: 4 Descent of Man by Charles Darwin Score: 2 more at linkabove
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Post by Charity on Jun 3, 2005 20:47:16 GMT -5
I pretty much agree with that list but I would have put them in a different order.
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