10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help -- Free Links To The Books Themselves

Quoting from the New York Times:

Regnery, the conservative publishing house, has just brought out a book called “10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn’t Help.” The author, Benjamin Wiker, is a senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and co-author of “Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Richard Dawkins’ Case Against God.” Accordingly, none of the world’s great religious books make the cut in this new volume.

The four “preliminary screw-ups” are “The Prince,” Descartes’s “Discourse on Method,” “Leviathan” (poor Hobbes; always the fall guy) and Rousseau’s “Second Discourse.” A “dishonorable mention” goes to “The Feminine Mystique,” by Betty Friedan (an atheist, and “quite homely” to boot).

Here are the Top 10 screw-ups in chronological order, and 5 others that did not help. Click on the one that you are interested in, and the link will bring you to a site where you can download or read the book for free.

1) The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

2) Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

3) The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin

4) Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

5) State and Revolution by Vladmir Illich Lenin

6) The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger

7) Mein Kampf, Volume 1 & 2 by Adolf Hitler

8) The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud

9) Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead

10) Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male by Alfred Kinsey

Honorable Mentions:

1) The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli

2) Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes

3) Levithan by Thomas Hobbes

4) Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Between Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5) The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Comments and info on this list from other blogs are the following:
JPB
Amazon -- Description of the book
The List Universe
Stuart Geiger

My Comment: I could make a very long list of books that should be on this list. Mao's Red Book, Protocols of Zion, etc.. But there is one thing that comes to mind ...... Books do not screw up the world, people do.