"From Machiavelli's 'The Prince' to Alfred Kinsey's 'Sexual Behavior in the Human Male', from Karl Marx's 'Communist Manifesto' to Margaret Mead's 'Coming of Age in Samoa', these 'influential' books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, the breakdown of the family, and disastrous social experiments...
'10 Books That Screwed Up the World' provides a quick education in the worst ideas in human history and explains how we can avoid them in the future." (Goodreads commentary on "10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help" by Benjamin Wiker)
Wiker has classified the 15 books of the title as follows:
1-4: Preliminary Screw-Ups
5-14: Ten Big Screw-Ups
15: Dishonourable Mention
Also
16: The source book (available at the link)
