A discussion about the placement of Mein Kampf in bookstores and on library shelves led me to this book. He begins with the writings of the philosophers Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes and Rousseau and then examines The Communist Manifesto. Utilitarianism, Descent of Man, Mein Kampf, Coming of Age in Samoa, and the Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan among others. Unfortunately he uses a very narrow lens to examine these works. He identifies all the authors as atheists and it is this failure to believe in the rewards of heaven or the punishment of hell that let them to imagine these dangerous worlds of free love, personal choice, and the preference for power. It was kind of a disappointment but might be a good discussion starter.
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