Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

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ColdBlooded

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Looks like i have a summer reading list . . .

http://humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591

Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Posted May 31, 2005

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. The Communist Manifesto
    Authors: Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels
    Publication date: 1848
    Score: 74
  • 2. Mein Kampf
    Author: Adolf Hitler
    Publication date: 1925-26
    Score: 41
  • 3. Quotations from Chairman Mao
    Author: Mao Zedong
    Publication date: 1966
    Score: 38
  • 4. The Kinsey Report
    Author: Alfred Kinsey
    Publication date: 1948
    Score: 37
  • 5. Democracy and Education
    Author: John Dewey
    Publication date: 1916
    Score: 36
  • 6. Das Kapital
    Author: Karl Marx
    Publication date: 1867-1894
    Score: 31
  • 7. The Feminine Mystique
    Author: Betty Friedan
    Publication date: 1963
    Score: 30
  • 8. The Course of Positive Philosophy
    Author: Auguste Comte
    Publication date: 1830-1842
    Score: 28
  • 9. Beyond Good and Evil
    Author: Freidrich Nietzsche
    Publication date: 1886
    Score: 28
  • 10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
    Author: John Maynard Keynes
    Publication date: 1936
    Score: 23

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

The Judges
These 15 scholars and public policy leaders served as judges in selecting the Ten Most Harmful Books.

Arnold Beichman
Research Fellow
Hoover Institution

Prof. Brad Birzer
Hillsdale College

Harry Crocker
Vice President & Executive Editor
Regnery Publishing, Inc.

Prof. Marshall DeRosa
Florida Atlantic University

Dr. Don Devine
Second Vice Chairman
American Conservative Union

Prof. Robert George
Princeton University

Prof. Paul Gottfried
Elizabethtown College

Prof. William Anthony Hay
Mississippi State University

Herb London
President
Hudson Institute

Prof. Mark Malvasi
Randolph-Macon College

Douglas Minson
Associate Rector
The Witherspoon Fellowships

Prof. Mark Molesky
Seton Hall University

Prof. Stephen Presser
Northwestern University

Phyllis Schlafly
President
Eagle Forum

Fred Smith
President
Competitive Enterprise Institute
 
KleanKut

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I dont agree with Mein Kampf, i have read it. #1 it would have been an extremly helpful book if people would have read it and paied attention to the subtle ties of hating the jews prior to Adolf hitler taking power. Also #2 the book its self i dont belive is that harmful as a peice of lierature. I could be interprting it wrong though. Anyone else who has read it post your thoughts. Looking at this list, i think the authors made the list not the litiratue they wrote.
 
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I couldn't help but notice that silent spring, by Rachel Carson is in the honourable mention. If you haven't read this book, you should. She was the first to chronicle the effects of DDT on birds, showing that it decreased their birth weights, weakened their egg shells, decreased their life spans - pretty much fucked them up completely. This book was essentially the start of the environmental movement - just about everything that we've done in the last few decades to stop pollution, the use of chemical pesticides, initiate recycling programs etc. were kicked off by the words this lady wrote in Silent Spring . It has helped educate people on the benefits of 'going green', why using single-use plastic shopping bags (supermarket style) is bad, why you should wash your car, dishes and clothes with biodegradable detergents etc. Even a lot of political reforms have been implemented as a result of this book - e.g. why food additives and chemicals must undergo stringent tests before being allowed into the environment, and the decision to make big companies accountable for their wastes.

Essentially - this book should be in the top ten BEST books of the 19th and 20th centuries, if not all time. These judges have seriously got their shit twisted.
 
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ColdBlooded said:
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I wasn't saying it should be on the list, I was just commenting that those books, ones that people live by and die for are also the ones that create the most harm in our society.

A book by Hitler, a book by God... both have postive and negative influences on the readers, it's all left to interpritation.
 
DeceptaKhan

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can someone describe the defintion of harmful books?are they writings that would cause up risings in societies?Truly evil books?or information that shouldnt be attainable by the average citizen for reasons unknown
 
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I think they mean harmful to our/their current way of life(as was when the book made it's impact.)although that current way of life might have been bad for (women(fem mystiq). like fridge said-it's all up to interpritation...
 
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Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture by Uncle Fester

wasn't on the list? huh.
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I suppose this book was more destructive as far as drugs and bombs and crime go....

The books mentioned above "top 10" More or less i think made the list for the THOUGHTS and IDEAS it expressed..

The top 10 influenced almost every major poltical leader in the world the last 100 years...

Whereas the "anarchist cookbook" influenced every major dope feind and Anarchist in the last 10 years.....

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