“authors that affected history & the names of their books”
American-
Profiles in Courage – JFK (it raised his profile & helped Americans see him as a serious candidate)
Unsafe At Any Speed – R. Nader (brought safety to the forefront in auto engineering)
Foreign-
The Little Red Book – Mao Zedong (alternate spellings exist – the manifesto that 1/5 of the world’s population is enslaved under)
Mein Kampf – A.H., yemach shemo.
J’accuse – Emile Zola (not really a book, but an article that forced the French to reexamine the Dreyfus case and confront their anti-semitism)
The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx (birth of a movement that cost untold hundreds of millions of lives)