The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

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Penguin, 2 jun 2011 - 256 pagina's
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.
 

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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
OAKTON MANOR AND CAMP KAWAGA
FEMINISM
THE ASHKENAZIS
SOME PERSONAL HISTORY
THE FAMILY
NATURALLY EVOLVED INSTITUTIONS
BREATHARIAN

CHICAGO
MILTON FRIEDMAN EXPLAINED
WHAT IS DIVERSITY?
THE MONTY HALL PROBLEMAND THE CONTRACTOR Chapter 13 MAXWELL STREET
R100 Chapter 15 THE INTELLIGENT PERSONS GUIDE TO SOCIALISM AND ANTI SEMITISM
THE VICTIM
PURITANS
THE NOBLE SAVAGE
ADVENTURE SLUMMING
CABINET SPIRITUALISMAND THE CAR CZAR Chapter 21 RUMPELSTILTSKIN
MY FATHER AL SHARPTON AND THE DESIGNATED CRIMINAL
GREED
THE STREET SWEEPER AND THE SURGEON OR MARXISM EXAMINED
SELFEVIDENT TRUTH
HOPE AND CHANGE
THE SMALL REFRIGERATOR
BUMPER STICKERS
LATE REVELATIONS
WHO DOES ONE THINK HE
THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE
Acknowledgements BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Copyright

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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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