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You've heard about the "Great Literature"?
These are their wicked opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Erotic Habit in the Individual Men, these "influential" catalogs have resulted in conflict, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous public experiments. Yet these authors' bad ideas remain popular and pervasive--in simple fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it. Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker. In his scintillating new publication, 10 Literature That Screwed Up the globe (And 5 Others That Didn't Help), he seizes each one of these evil catalogs by its malignant center and exposes it to the light of day. In this witty, learned, and provocative exposé, you'll learn:
* Why Machiavelli's The Prince was the motivation for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin got it on his nightstand)
* How Descartes' Discourse on Method "proved" God's life only by causing Him a creation of our very own ego
* How Hobbes' Leviathan resulted in the belief that we've a "right" to whatever we want
* Why Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto could win the honor for the most harmful book ever written
* How Darwin's The Descent of Man shows he meant "survival of the fittest" to be applied to human contemporary society
* How Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil issued the decision for a global ruled entirely by the "will to power"
* How Hitler's Mein Kampf was a kind of "spiritualized Darwinism" that makes up about his genocidal anti-Semitism
* How the pansexual paradise explained in Margaret Mead's Coming old in Samoa ended up being a creation of her own erotic confusions and aspirations
* Why Alfred Kinsey's Erotic Habit in the Individual Men was simply autobiography masquerading as knowledge
Witty, surprising, and instructive, 10 Literature That Screwed Up the globe offers a quick education on the worst ideas in individual history--and how we can prevent them in the future.
