1. The Communist Manifesto
Authors: Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels
Publication date: 1848
Score: 742. Mein Kampf
Author: Adolf Hitler
Publication date: 1925-26
Score: 41 3. Quotations from Chairman Mao
Author: Mao Zedong
Publication date: 1966
Score: 384. The Kinsey Report
Author: Alfred Kinsey
Publication date: 1948
Score: 375. Democracy and Education
Author: John Dewey
Publication date: 1916
Score: 366. Das Kapital
Author: Karl Marx
Publication date: 1867-1894
Score: 317. The Feminine Mystique
Author: Betty Friedan
Publication date: 1963
Score: 308. The Course of Positive Philosophy
Author: Auguste Comte
Publication date: 1830-1842
Score: 289. Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Freidrich Nietzsche
Publication date: 1886
Score: 2810. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Author: John Maynard Keynes
Publication date: 1936
Score: 23Honorable Mention
These books won votes from two or more judges:
The Population Bomb
by Paul Ehrlich
Score: 22What Is To Be Done
by V.I. Lenin
Score: 20Authoritarian Personality
by Theodor Adorno
Score: 19On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
Score: 18Beyond Freedom and Dignity
by B.F. Skinner
Score: 18Reflections on Violence
by Georges Sorel
Score: 18The Promise of American Life
by Herbert Croly
Score: 17Origin of the Species
by Charles Darwin
Score: 17Madness and Civilization
by Michel Foucault
Score: 12Soviet Communism: A New Civilization
by Sidney and Beatrice Webb
Score: 12Coming of Age in Samoa
by Margaret Mead
Score: 11Unsafe at Any Speed
by Ralph Nader
Score: 11Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
Score: 10Prison Notebooks
by Antonio Gramsci
Score: 10Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Score: 9Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon
Score: 9Introduction to Psychoanalysis
by Sigmund Freud
Score: 9The Greening of America
by Charles Reich
Score: 9The Limits to Growth
by Club of Rome
Score: 4Descent of Man
by Charles Darwin
Score: 2
Not too bad a list. My tops would be Madness and Civilization which allows mopes of every political stripe the opportunity to deconstruct any discourse. Once you have eliminated 'agreement or covenants of any kind' you are free to practice any smear on understanding. Foucault and his disciples have devalued conversation ( Ward Churchill and Rush Limbaugh e.g.).
Why is that on the list?
Mein Kampf was a warning, but nobody paid it any heed. The book wasn't harmful, but failure to stop the author after it was published WAS.
What book made #3?
Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky
Publication date: 1966
Good catch (the Adorno book).
bump books
All these should be on the general reading list. Most of them, if actually read rather than read about, will be found tedious or vacuous.
Anything by Howard Zinn is also noteworthy, particuarly A People's History of the United States. This #121 on Amazon's list is required reading in many American high schools.
One for the M.A. list.