Publisher, Tantor Media (August 2008)

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From Machiavelli to Marx, Nietzsche to Hitler, this volume offers a provocative look at some of Western civilization's most infamous authors and their literary works and shows how these works have inflicted great evil in the world---and still cause suffering.

About the Author: Benjamin Wiker received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and has taught at Marquette University, St. Mary's University, Thomas Aquinas College, and Franciscan University. He now writes full-time as a senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and is also a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute. He has published several books, including A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature, coauthored with Jonathan Witt, and Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God, coauthored with Scott Hahn. He lives in rural Ohio with his wife and seven children.

About the Narrator: A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Robertson Dean has played leading roles on Broadway (in Pygmalion with Peter O'Toole and in The Circle with Rex Harrison), off Broadway, and at dozens of regional theaters throughout the country. He lives in Los Angeles, where he works, and in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He has many prime-time television credits, including all the Star Treks and seven years on The Young and the Restless. He has appeared in a number of films, including Star Trek: Nemesis; Money Talks; Vanilla Sky; and Sundance favorite Forgiving the Franklins. Robertson has narrated hundreds of audiobooks, including The Good Life by Jay McInerney, The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, and The Trudeau Vector by Juris Jurjevics, for which he won an AudioFile Earphones Award.