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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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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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- Anonymous User
- 25-05-2021
Interesting, but a hidden underlying common thread
I don't know much about philosophy or the books that were summarised by this book, so the summary that was provided was certainly instructional and educational to a point.
The further I got through the book however, the more some familiar conclusions kept coming up. For the most part, all the weird perverse ideologies of the authors seemed to stem from one common factor: atheism. In the end, I found this common conclusion overly simplistic and coloured every other assertion that the author made.
The orator certainly had a distinctive voice with a very authoritarian tone, but as other reviewers have mentioned, didn't distinguish enough between standard text and quotes which made it easy to drift off and lose concentration.
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- Kindle Customer
- 31-01-2023
Preachy and one-sided
Had potential, but is very unbalanced, with lots of falling back on ‘this author was evil because he was atheist’. Doesn’t mention any positives from any of the books, and spends more time telling the audience about the author than the book, or the effect of the book on the world.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-01-2023
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!
This is the worst book I have ever listened to or read. It’s not just that his writing is simplistic but the fact is Wiker’s misogynism and Christian proselytising are nauseating. I’m not impressed with Audible as this should have been made clear in the blurb. Wiker attributes 100 million deaths to The Communist Manifesto yet there is not one chapter devoted to The Bible - how many ‘heathens’ were killed during The Crusades? Wiker does NOT present an in depth objective analysis of the books he has chosen, in fact much of his writing is character assassination. His description of Betty Friedan’s mother as “domineering yet beautiful” made me reach for the bucket! Urgh! I wanted to give this no stars but the Audible review bot is forcing me to give one star for each category so that this review can be published.
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- Adam
- 08-04-2020
This is the book that shouldn't have been written
I have struggled with this book. it's a simplistic, black and white interpretation of some of the most influential books ever written ( even if they may have had a bad influence). The author colours everything with a conservative, anti-atheist, anti-abortion slant with many snide remarks about "liberals". Politics aside, the author only focused on the bad aspects of the books without explaining the books in the context of their times and why they were so popular/influential or suggesting what our world would look like if the books hadn't been written. Sure, we could probably have done without Hitlers Mein Kampf, but most of the other books were important philosophical or political pieces that have had huge influence, both good and bad, on our world. Some of the comments may have been written in jest but, if so, the sarcasm was too fine for me to appreciate.
Narrator was okay but didn't distinguish between quotes from the books in question and from the actual narrative very well.
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- Andrew Wood
- 19-04-2022
A nasty book squarely aimed at the christian right
I expected an interesting analysis of several books that helped shape and form the world we live in.
What it actually is a series of connected attacks on liberalism and specifically atheists. I like challenging books and books that challenge my world opinion but unfortunately the author's superficial arguments and major fallacies may challenge my world views but don't challenge my intellect.
In summary - the books argues the horrors of the past 500 years and indeed our world today is thoroughly because of the decline of Western Christian views and the rise of secularism. Unfortunately, firstly this ignores the majority of "the world" and further more ignores the fact that the average human today is in a better condition then 500 years ago.
A better title would be 10 books that screwed up Christian dominance and replaced them with something far better.
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- Dean
- 05-05-2023
Terrible, presents like it was written in the 1800's
I thought this book might have been an insight of some sort, well, it was of a sort, all the author sought to do was lament the demise of the followers of Christian faith, not to say that parts of what the author presents don't have merit, they most certainly do, but only to present reasons why faith and the church have become less relevant
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- Anonymous User
- 20-08-2020
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Blatant Christian propaganda. if you're up for a sermon - this is the book for you. Atheists will find this preachy and a complete insult.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-11-2020
Wiker, 10 books that screwed the world
Author reviews well known books and authors with religious logic.
Describers Machiavelli as an atheist who is evil by renouncing god. (No doubt Machiavellism is unacceptable.)
Describes Marxism as an evil idea because communism in Russia and China reveal awful casulties. His logics are rediculous because what is then Christianity if we judge it by the acts of Catholic pedofilic priests?!
Really sad I wasted time and money.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-02-2021
great informative summary
Exellent read, summarises alot of influences that have contributed to the degeneration of western society that most people don't realise and gives an opportunity to investigate further.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-05-2023
Dangerous propaganda
The only reason I listened to the end was to leave an honest review.
The author preaches anti atheism clap trap grouping great minds like Freud and Darwin in with Hitler and Machiavelli in order to discredit them completely.
Anti women's choice
Anti homosexuality
Anti feminist / misogynist
Sexual repression
Anti actual science
He blatantly cherry picks out of their writings to push his misogynist, homophobic opions.
The only plus to this publication is that it has sparked my interest to read the publications he has slammed.
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