Are Republicans banning books for their kids? Is creating a "bad book" list the same as banning books to thousands, if not millions of kids throughout the South and Midwest?
If rethugs win re-election, will that be the end of certain books in our libraries and Universities? Maybe not... but is it Democratic to be writing a "ban these books" list? Certainly not. In fact it's downright UnAmerican.
Here's the
article from the San Francisco Chronicle online edition.
The 10 Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Century
"The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
"Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler
"Quotations from Chairman Mao" by Mao Zedong
The Kinsey Report by Alfred Kinsey
"Democracy and Education" by John Dewey
"Das Kapital" by Karl Marx
"The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan
"The Course of Positive Philosophy" by Auguste Comte
"Beyond Good and Evil" by Frederich Nietzsche
"General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" by John Maynard Keynes
-- As chosen by a conservative panel in Human Events magazine
Honorable Mention:
"The Population Bomb" by Paul Ehrlich
"What Is to Be Done?" by V.I. Lenin
"Authoritarian Personality" by Theodor Adorno
"On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill
"Beyond Freedom and Dignity" by B.F. Skinner
"Reflections on Violence" by Georges Sorel
"The Promise of American Life" by Herbert Croly
"The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin
"Madness and Civilization" by Michel Foucault (soooooo good!!!)
"Soviet Communism: A New Civilization" by Sidney and Beatrice Webb
"Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead
"Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader
"The Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir
"Prison Notebooks" by Antonio Gramsci
"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
"The Wretched of the Earth" by Frantz Fanon
"Introduction to Psychoanalysis" by Sigmund Freud
"The Greening of America" by Charles Reich
"The Limits to Growth" by Club of Rome
"The Descent of Man" by Charles Darwin