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Originally Posted by issybird
"Scripture" is cheating, IMO. On other fronts, Morrison does seem out of her depth, and I'd pick Rachel Carson over Leopold. And shouldn't The Communist Manifesto be offset by Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations? For that matter, Capital would be a better choice than the Manifesto.
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I would say the Morrison is quite a stretch. Unfortunately, Rachel Carson seems to have been discredited, or at a minimum is considered controversial. But certainly it was an influential work.
http://www.perc.org/blog/silent-spri...arsons-classic
There are quite a few works that I would consider to be more influential than some of the works listed.