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by Benjamin Wiker

  • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
  • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
  • Release date: 09-16-08
  • Language: English

You’ve heard of the “Great Books”? These are their evil opposites.

From Machiavelli’s The Prince to Karl Marx’s 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 this scintillating new book, he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day. You’ll learn:

  • Why Machiavelli’s The Prince was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand)
  • How Descartes’s Discourse on Method “proved” God’s existence only by making Him a creation of our own ego
  • How Hobbes’s Leviathan led to the belief that we have a “right” to whatever we want
  • Why Marx and Engels’s Communist Manifesto could win the award for the most malicious book ever written
  • How Darwin’s Descent of Man proves he intended “survival of the fittest” to be applied to human society
  • How Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil issued the call for a world ruled solely by the “will to power”
  • How Hitler’s Mein Kampf was a kind of “spiritualized Darwinism” that accounts for his genocidal anti-Semitism
  • How the pansexual paradise described in Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa turned out to be a creation of her own sexual confusions and aspirations
  • Why Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was simply autobiography masquerading as science

    Witty, shocking, and instructive, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World offers a quick education on the worst ideas in human history and how we can avoid them in the future.

  • Additional information

    Language

    English

    Release date

    09-16-08

    Length

    6 hrs and 54 mins

    Narrated by

    Robertson Dean

    Author

    Benjamin Wiker

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