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10 Books That Screwed Up The World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help (2008)

by Benjamin Wiker(Favorite Author)

3.2 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1596980559 (ISBN13: 9781596980556)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Regnery Publishing

review 1: Briefly- this includes books I had never heard of as well as some I had. At first I felt Wiker was more attacking than arguing how these books had affected the world, but it was simply because it was books I wasn't familiar with. When the chapter covered books I knew, the arguments made much more sense. I appreciate how Wiker is able to sum up the thesis of the book, the intended purpose as well as why it was flawed and the effects that have come. I gave it four stars instead of five because in some chapters Wiker's opinion takes over much and it may not have matched mine, or I couldn't get past his 'attack' tone. There are many quotes from the books he includes, except for one person- and I for one am rather glad I didn't have the opportunity to read that person's twisted... more thoughts posed as science- which gave more insight as I read. This is definitely not a G rated book! Not suitable for teens unless gone through with an adult.
review 2: An interesting riff on the tradition of 'Great Books of Western Civ', this book of short essays is also a critique. The story of Western Civ is usually told as a story of Great Thinkers supposedly learning to become more scientific and more humanistic, but this book severely chastises several of those thinkers... on the grounds, ultimately, that they are too scientific (not enough faith) or too humanistic (no place for God). Which is unfortunate, because the argument ends up being circular and not convincing to the reader who happens to already be somehat scientific and humanistic. less

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