10 Books that Screwed Up the World (And 5 Others that Didn't Help)

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This list comes from Benjamin Wiker PhD's book "10 Books that Screwed Up the World (And 5 Others that Didn't Help)"
1
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
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2
The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
15,192 members
138 reviews
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3
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
by Friedrich Nietzsche
10,046 members
78 reviews
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4
Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes
8,298 members
45 reviews
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5
The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
4,576 members
49 reviews
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6
Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
4,149 members
78 reviews
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7
Discourse on Method
by René Descartes
2,710 members
38 reviews
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8
Utilitarianism
by John Stuart Mill
2,636 members
16 reviews
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9
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2,106 members
24 reviews
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10
The Future of an Illusion
by Sigmund Freud
1,736 members
14 reviews
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11
The Descent of Man
by Charles Darwin
1,595 members
14 reviews
3.9
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12
State and Revolution
by V. I. Lenin
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20 reviews
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13
Coming of Age in Samoa
by Margaret Mead
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18 reviews
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14
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
by Alfred C. Kinsey
318 members
3 reviews
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15
The Pivot of Civilization
by Margaret Sanger
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