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Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 sound online file |
| Playing Time |
06:54:35 |
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Unabridged. |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 99312 KB) or OverDrive Media Console (file size: 194626 KB). |
| Summary |
You've heard of the "Great Books"?These are their evil opposites. 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 his scintillating new book, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help, 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:---Why Machiavelli's The Prince was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand)---How Descartes's Discourse on Method "proved" God's... |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Nonfiction.
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Politics.
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| Added Author |
Dean, Robertson.
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| ISBN |
9781400127917 sound recording OverDrive Audio Book |
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9781400127917 sound recording OverDrive MP3 Audio Book |
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