The Secret Knowledge

by Mamet, David

• ISBN13: 9781595230768
• ISBN10: 1595230769
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-02
• Publisher: Sentinel

Summary

David Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics. In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-called mainstream media outlets he relied on were irredeemably biased, peddling a hypocritical and deeply flawed worldview. In 2008 Mamet wrote a hugely controversial op-ed for the Village Voice, "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'", in which he methodically attacked liberal beliefs, eviscerating them as efficiently as he did Method acting in his bestselling book True and False. Now Mamet employs his trademark intellectual force and vigor to take on all the key political issues of our times, from religion to political correctness to global warming. The legendary playwright, author, director, and filmmaker pulls no punches in his art or in his politics. And as a former liberal who woke up, Mamet will win over an entirely new audience of others who have grown irate over America's current direction.

Table of Contents

The Political Impulse	p. 1
The American Reality	p. 8
Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator	p. 11
Alcatraz	p. 21
Lost Horizon	p. 29
The Music Man	p. 34
Choice	p. 38
The Red Sea	p. 50
Chicago	p. 53
Milton Friedman Explained	p. 58
What is ôDiversityö?	p. 62
The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor	p. 65
Maxwell Street	p. 71
R100	p. 74
The Intelligent Person's Guide to Socialism and Anti-Semitism	p. 80
The Victim	p. 84
Puritans	p. 88
The Noble Savage	p. 91
Adventure Slumming	p. 96
Cabinet Spiritualism and the Car Czar	p. 100
Rumpelstiltskin	p. 104
My Father, Al Sharpton, and the Designated Criminal	p. 111
Greed	p. 116
Arrested Development	p. 123
Oakton Manor and Camp Kawaga	p. 129
Feminism	p. 134
The Ashkenazis	p. 146
Some Personal History	p. 156
The Family	p. 164
Naturally Evolved Institutions	p. 167
Breatharian	p. 172
The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined	p. 177
Self-Evident Truth	p. 190
Hope and Change	p. 196
The Small Refrigerator	p. 202
Bumper Stickers	p. 206
Late Revelations	p. 210
Who Does One Think He Is?	p. 216
The Secret Knowledge	p. 221
Acknowledgments	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 227
Index	p. 233
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