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The title should be "American Books that shaped America". The Capital not being included in that list is akin to the Catholic church leaving the Luteran bible o
by capcah 11y ago
The title should be "American Books that shaped America". The Capital not being included in that list is akin to the Catholic church leaving the Luteran bible outside a list of influential works.
- ojbyrne 11y agoI think you're right, and it must be because this is from the Library of Congress, which is a repository of books published in the US. A slightly less contentious example would be de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America
- pionar 11y agoIt took me a second to know what book you were referring to. I've never seen it called that. Every mention I've ever seen of it (and I live in the US), it's Das Kapital.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoIf we're going with non-American books that shaped America, John Locke would have a much better claim than Karl Marx, given that Locke's ideas had a profound influence on the American form of government.