{"product_id":"2940170602261","title":"10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help","description":"You've heard of the \"Great Books\"?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's \u003ci\u003eThe Prince\u003c\/i\u003e to Karl Marx's \u003ci\u003eCommunist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e to Alfred Kinsey's \u003ci\u003eSexual Behavior in the Human Male\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003e10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help\u003c\/i\u003e, he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day. In this witty, learned, and provocative exposé, you'll learn:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Why Machiavelli's \u003ci\u003eThe Prince\u003c\/i\u003e was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-How Descartes's \u003ci\u003eDiscourse on Method\u003c\/i\u003e \"proved\" God's existence only by making Him a creation of our own ego\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-How Hobbes's \u003ci\u003eLeviathan\u003c\/i\u003e led to the belief that we have a \"right\" to whatever we want\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Why Marx and Engels's \u003ci\u003eCommunist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e could win the award for the most malicious book ever written\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-How Darwin's \u003ci\u003eDescent of Man\u003c\/i\u003e proves he intended \"survival of the fittest\" to be applied to human society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-How Nietzsche's \u003ci\u003eBeyond Good and Evil\u003c\/i\u003e issued the call for a world ruled solely by the \"will to power\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-How Hitler's \u003ci\u003eMein Kampf\u003c\/i\u003e was a kind of \"spiritualized Darwinism\" that accounts for his genocidal anti-Semitism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-How the pansexual paradise described in Margaret Mead's \u003ci\u003eComing of Age in Samoa\u003c\/i\u003e turned out to be a creation of her own sexual confusions and aspirations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Why Alfred Kinsey's \u003ci\u003eSexual Behavior in the Human Male\u003c\/i\u003e was simply autobiography masquerading as science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWitty, shocking, and instructive, \u003ci\u003e10 Books That Screwed Up the World\u003c\/i\u003e offers a quick education on the worst ideas in human history-and how we can avoid them in the future.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115552194800,"sku":"2940170602261","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170602261_p0.jpg?v=1763713990","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170602261","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}