Aggressive culture destroyed books (9)
I believe the answer is:
truculent
'aggressive' is the definition.
('truculent' can be similar in meaning to 'aggressive')
'culture destroyed books' is the wordplay.
'destroyed' indicates anagramming the letters.
'books' becomes 'nt' (New Testament).
'culture' with letters rearranged gives 'trucule'.
'trucule'+'nt'='TRUCULENT'
(Other definitions for truculent that I've seen before include "Aggressively defiant" , "Rude and aggressive" , "Defiant, rude" , "Quarrelsome" , "Surly" .)