Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Posted in Books on 06/03/2005 01:43 pm by enjanerdOh. My. Goodness.
I just came across this list and I’m just sputtering. I don’t know what to say. Are these people serious?
Ten 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.
1. The Communist Manifesto
2. Mein Kampf
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4. The Kinsey Report
AVP: Alien vs. Predator dvdrip 5. Democracy and Education
I guess if I were a conservative scholar, I would be apprehensive about people reading about different ideas too.
Becket dvdrip And don’t miss the honorable mentions, including:
Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner
Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin
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Wow. Anyway, go hug a librarian FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue movie . Yay for Banned Books Week! (Sept 24-Oct1)
06/04/2005 at 16:03
I like their writeup for #7, The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. They pointed this out on somethingawful – they don’t even talk about the book, only how Friedan was a communist. Their list would be better called “Communism, environmentalism and science are bad.”
06/04/2005 at 20:08
I kind of want to read some of these books now to see what’s so “harmful” about them. Like their focus on Friedan’s “communism”, their descriptions for most of those books seemed to have missed the point.