HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries: "HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated. A title received a score of 10 points for being listed No. 1 by one of our panelists, 9 points for being listed No. 2, etc. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. 1 listing."
Abbreviated list without annotations -- Okie library holdings by me:
1. The Communist Manifesto
Authors: Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels
Owned by at least 15 Okie libraries
2. Mein Kampf
Author: Adolf Hitler
Owned by at least 20 Okie libraries
3. Quotations from Chairman Mao
Author: Mao Zedong
Owned by at least 5 Okie libraries
4. The Kinsey Report
Author: Alfred Kinsey
Latest update owned by at least 14 Okie libraries
5. Democracy and Education
Author: John Dewey
Owned by at least 10 Okie libraries
6. Das Kapital
Author: Karl Marx
Owned by at least 15 Okie libraries
7. The Feminine Mystique
Author: Betty Friedan
Owned by at least 18 Okie libraries
8. The Course of Positive Philosophy
Author: Auguste Comte
Owned by at least 5 Okie libraries
9. Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Freidrich Nietzsche
Owned by at least 10 Okie libraries
10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Author: John Maynard Keynes
Owned by at least 10 Okie libraries
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Funny that Keynes is to blame for the debt that arose primarily from supply-side economics. The federal deficit was at $930 billion just after Reagan was elected. The deficit was $2.6 trillion by September, 1988. Four more years of Bush brought the deficit to $4 trillion. The deficit was at $5.67 trillion after 8 years under Clinton. As of April 30, 2005, the total deficit is $7.76 trillion.
Well, personnally I feel Dewey's contribution should have been his Decimal System. I mean come on we all know the classification system doesn't make sense and is almost obsolete--it just doesn't account for so many things. I feel harmed every day I have to use it to classify books on new technologies! Obviously none of these judges were economists OR librarians!
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