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10 Books That Screwed Up the World
- And 5 Others That Didn't Help
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Summary
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:
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.
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- Michael Stakounis
- 20-04-22
Pseudo intellectual nonsense used to propagate an undisclosed agenda.
False logic, straw man arguments, ridiculous generalisations, and poorly defined presumptions based on what I can only assume is a USA American Christian perspective on the Bible, and laughably inaccurate misrepresentations off well-established philosophical concepts. This author obviously disagrees with the authors that he references because they contradict his understanding of whatever Christian sect he belongs to, but instead of saying that, he does a poor job of dismantling the philosophical and logical concepts in the books he references either because he assumes that all of his readers will have the same Christian background as him, or he is hoping no one will challenge his Christian precepts.
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- shawn
- 03-07-18
Abrasive but succinct
I really enjoyed the listen to this book.
It covered the major though influencing books of the 1900's and 2000's.
I found it quite helpful in overhauling what the book was preaching / teaching.
I think that because I am not American, I could not work out if the author was snarky or being silly / sarcastic.
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- Investor, father, entrepreneur
- 24-12-22
Excellent and lucid
Wiker offers very good examples of many thinkers who have deterioritated western civilization during centuries
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