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Got this from a friend, thought it was rather interesting:

Human Events asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated. A title received a score of 10 points for being listed No. 1 by one of our panelists, 9 points for being listed No. 2, etc. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. 1 listing. Read more... )

(The web page lists the judges, too.)
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I actually expected to have read more of these. But some of the selections surprised me... Read more... )
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Anyone who says Americans don't cook anymore hasn't been to Brookline lately... Read more... )
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Haven't tried one of these yet, but this one looked interesting (got it from [livejournal.com profile] catalana)... Be warned, it's kind of long. Read more... )
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Just finished reading a really interesting book... I don't usually go for nonfiction, but this one caught my attention. Read more... )

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