Ten Most Harmful Books of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

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<p>50 Worst Books of the Twentieth Century:</p>

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<p>Very amusing ^_^</p>

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<p>lol @ the origin of species, keynes’ general theory & the feminine mystique making the list</p>

<p>unsafe at any speed? is this a joke?</p>

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<p>“Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson”</p>

<p>What the…???</p>

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<p>It’s on a website for conservatives…hehehehe staunch defense of American freedom and they’re attacking the Feminine Mystique…</p>

<p>We all know the O’Reily Factor for Kids and Godless by Ann Coulter has done more damage to the world then Silent Spring ever did. </p>

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<p>That’s on the list because, by prompting calls for a ban on DDT, the book may have contributed to the unnecessary deaths of millions of people in developing countries.</p>

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<p>I agree with you about the Origin of Species. The Feminine Mystique, however, brought about the idea that working in the home was akin to being in a concentration camp. While I’m certainly supportive of women who want to work, I’m also supportive of women who’d like to stay home and raise their children.</p>

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<p>wow, that’s insane. ugh, the ignorance of some people</p>

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<p>Interesting that the autobiography of Malcolm X made both the “best” and “worst” lists. I would definitely side with those who placed it on the former. He was an amazing public figure and his autobiography reveals his dramatic intellectual and spiritual evolution that eventually caused him to break ranks with the Nation of Islam. His autobiography is also an appalling chronicle of racism in America. A great read.</p>

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<p>AHAHAHAHAHHA. They are blaming Keynes for the current debt situation. By god, this is stupid (I have nothing against conservatives…but I would hope no conservative would want to be represented by such a website).</p>

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<p>LOL, my first thoughts were the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf - and they are the first two results on the page.</p>

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<p>Malcolm X - I’d put it on the worst list! Sorry to disaggree. </p>

<p>Mao’s book - I bought it and gave it to my uncle for Christmas one year a while back. He laughed his head off - ardent Republican that he is - -my first lesson about Communism. I hadn’t meant it as a gag gift.</p>

<p>Silent Spring as harmful??? Wow! My grandmother has an original issue and she treasures it. </p>

<p>Never heard of Coming of Age in Samoa. Since it is a harmful book, I want to read it!</p>

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<p>I don’t understand why liberals spend so much time on the internet making fun of conservative thought. Conservatives would laugh at a liberal list, and apparently vice-versa…this comes across as a bit lame, much like the bob jones bashing thread we had a while ago.</p>

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<p>No playboy?</p>

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<p>It’s funny – those books aren’t exactly light reading. I don’t think I know anyone who’s actually read Das Kapital or Beyond Good and Evil. If those books are influential, they’re mostly influential to the 1% of the population who can actually understand them. Probably what influenced those social movements much more than the books were the protests, the pamphlets, the propaganda signs, etc. Or (for some of those books) the socioeconomic pressures that led to popular dissatisfaction.</p>

<p>Just a thought.</p>

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<p>Conservatives want to bomb the hell out of the Middle East so they can get women out of burqas and into kitchen aprons. That’s freedom!</p>

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<p>Ditto Aristotle1990:</p>

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<p>haha,it’s funny</p>

<p>but I wanna know it is a joke?</p>

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<p>No, it’s not a joke. I think I agree with every book on the list.</p>

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<p>because you are ultra conservative?Sibelius?</p>

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<p>so-called harmful books sometime can be great</p>

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<p>hitler, ok no problem, but how did darwin get an honorable mention? i thought this site was for college educated readers, or at least those who want to be.</p>