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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.

ISBN-13: 9781595230973

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Publication Date: 08-28-2012

Pages: 256

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

Age Range: 18 Years

David Mamet 's Glengarry Glen Ross won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1984. He is also the author of Writing in Restaurants and On Directing Film, both available from Penguin.

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"A Manichean analysis from a strident new voice from the Right—-for liberals, something intended to ignite antagonism; for the like-minded, a buttress against the opposition." —-Kirkus

Table of Contents

Preface xi

1 The Political Impulse 1

2 The American Reality 8

3 Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator 11

4 Alcatraz 21

5 Lost Horizon 29

6 The Music Man 34

7 Choice 38

8 The Red Sea 50

9 Chicago 53

10 Milton Friedman Explained 58

11 What Is "Diversity"? 62

12 The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor

13 Maxwell Street 71

14 R100 74

15 The Intelligent Person's Guide to Socialism and Anti-Semitism 80

16 The Victim 84

17 Puritans 88

18 The Noble Savage 91

19 Adventure Slumming 96

20 Cabinet Spiritualism and the Car Czar 100

21 Rumpelstiltskin 104

22 My Father, Al Sharpton, and the Designated Criminal 111

23 Greed 116

24 Arrested Development 123

25 Oakton Manor and Camp Kawaga 129

26 Feminism 134

27 The Ashkenazis 146

28 Some Personal History 156

29 The Family 164

30 Naturally Evolved Institutions 167

31 Breatharian 172

32 The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined 177

33 Self-Evident Truth 190

34 Hope and Change 196

35 The Small Refrigerator 202

36 Bumper Stickers 206

37 Late Revelations 210

38 Who Does One Think He Is? 216

39 The Secret Knowledge 221

Acknowledgments 225

Bibliography 227

Index 233