And 5 Others That Didn't Help
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You've heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive--in fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it. Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker. In his scintillating new book, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World (And 5 Others That Didn't Help), he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day.
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This is one of those books that I want to give less than one star to. I didn't actually finish it, because I didn't feel a need to do so. Wiker's complaints about every book pretty much come down to, “It's not from my Christian worldview.” He's black and white, and I have very little tolerance for the intolerant.