Books that scare conservatives

Maggie says:
Via Lawyers, Guns and Money, here's the list that Human Events, "The National Conservative Weekly," compiled of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries:
1. The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
2. Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
3. Quotations from Chairman Mao, Mao Zedong
4. The Kinsey Report, Alfred Kinsey
5. Democracy and Education, John Dewey
6. Das Kapital, Karl Marx
7. The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
8. The Course of Positive Philosophy, Auguste Comte
9. Beyond Good and Evil, Friederich Nietzsche
10. General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes

The commentary at the Human Events link is classic. For The Feminine Mystique, the group dismisses Friedan as a Marxist and says that "Her original vocation, tellingly, was not stay-at-home motherhood but left-wing journalism."

The commentary for General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money is great, too: "The book is a recipe for ever-expanding government. When the business cycle threatens a contraction of industry, and thus of jobs, he argued, the government should run up deficits, borrowing and spending money to spur economic activity. FDR adopted the idea as U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a $2.6-trillion annual budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt." Hmmm... sounds to me that according to their own analysis, Human Events should be appalled at the fiscal policies of Bush&Co instead of supporting the war in Iraq and everything that comes out of Bush's mouth. I'd say that's the bigger outrage, not FDR leading the country through an economic crisis.

And for all you fellow book nerds out there, here are the honorable mentions (although without the amusing commentary). This stuff is so interesting:
11. The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich
12. What is to be Done, V.I. Lenin
13. Authoritarian Personality, Theodor Adorno
14. On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
15. Beyond Freedom and Dignity, B.F. Skinner
16. Reflections on Violence, Georges Sorel
17. The Promise of American Life, Herbert Croly
18. Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin
19. Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault
20. Soviet Communism: A New Civilization, Sidney and Beatrice Webb
21. Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead
22. Unsafe at Any Speed, Ralph Nader
23. Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
24. Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci
25. Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
26. Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
27. Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud
28. The Greening of America, Charles Reich
29. The Limits to Growth, Club of Rome
30. Descent of Man, Charles Darwin