"Most Harmful Books" List
In 2005, Human Events published a list of Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries:
- The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, by Mao Zedong
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, by Alfred Kinsey
- Democracy and Education, by John Dewey
- Das Kapital, by Karl Marx
- The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
- The Course in Positive Philosophy, by Auguste Comte
- Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche
- General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, by John Maynard Keynes
Twenty books received honorable mention, including The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin, and Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson.
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