10 Books That Screwed Up the World

Machiavelli's The Prince; Descartes' Discourse on Method; Hobbes' Leviathan; Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto; Darwin's The Descent of Man; Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil; Hitler's Mein Kampf; Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa; Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male; Margaret Sanger's The Pivot of Civilization

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513,...

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Discourse on the Method

by René Descartes

The Discourse on the Method is a philosophical and mathematical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. Its full name is Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Searching for Truth...

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Manifesto of the Communist Party

by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), often referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential...

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Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse), subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft), is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche,...