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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
"Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air."
The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG sounds his alarm about the Visigoths at our gates.
In RECESSIONAL he calls out, skewers, mocks, and, most importantly, dissects the virus of conformity which is now an existential threat to the West.
A broad-ranging journey through history, the Bible, and literature, RECESSIONAL examines how politics and cultural attitudes about rebellion have shifted in the United States in the last generation. By screaming down freedom of thought and expression, Mamet explains, we kill invention and democracy – the foundations of security and growth.
A wickedly funny, wistful and wry appeal to the free-thinking citizen, RECESSIONAL is a vital warning that if we don't confront the cultural thuggery now, the commissars and their dupes will transform the Land of the Free into the dictatorship at which they aim.
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accident chain, 52–53
ACLU, 96
Actors Studio, 165
Addams, Jane, 18
Adler, Polly, 114
African Americans. See also slaves and slavery
American culture and, 160
in armed forces, 55
assimilation and, 59
Jews and, 57–59
supposed fragility of, 35, 36
white women and, 35–36
aging, 191, 192, 209
Albee, Edward, 162–163
Algonquin Hotel, 159, 160
America
as aspirational, 213
culture of, 160
immigrants to, 97–98
American Buffalo (Mamet), 162, 166
American character, 211
anarchy, 90, 98
anonymity
inclusion as, 48
Jews and, 48, 56, 97
anti-Semitism
assimilation and, 97
cause of, 98
derogation of Israel, 194
Dreyfus affair and, 8–9
Graham and “workday,” 46–47
apparatchiks, 89
Aristophanes, 14
Armageddon, 204–205
armed forces, African Americans in, 55
arts. See also theatre
careers of talentless in, 190
free speech and, 91–92
intention of artist, 189–190, 191–192
novelty in, 120
Asperger’s syndrome, 61
assimilation
African Americans and, 59
anonymity as, 48, 56
Jews and, 48, 56, 97
atom bomb, 29–30
autism, 61
Baldwin, Alec, 168
Beckett, Samuel, 190
bedtime stories and fear, 91
Bellamy, Edward, 134
Benchley, Robert, 159–160
Bergman, Marilyn, 204
Berman, Alan, 204
Bettelheim, Bruno, 61, 62, 63
Bisset, Jackie, 24
Black Lives Matter, marketing of, 25
Bleuler, Eugen, 61
The Book of Five Rings (Musashi), 197
bookstores, 115–116
Borden. G. F., 135
Broadway
current offerings, 157, 158
Dramatists Guild, 162–163
early great American dramas, 120–121
free speech and, 91–92, 94
golden age, 166
“ice,” 163–164
live, national, 143, 144
middle class and, 166
pageant as dominant on, 92–93
playwright’s tasks, 145, 147–150
Studio Duplicating Service, 165
successful plays, 155–156
as transformative experience, 93–94
Ziegfeld Follies, 200–201
Bronstein, Steve, 123
Bruce, Lenny, 25
Buckley, William F., 46–47
bullying
costs of confronting, 12, 13
forms of, 11–12
schools’ response to allegations of, 12–13
as unlicensed application of power, 11
by weak, 13
Burke, John, 88
business, incitement to fear and hate as strategy of, 9
Butler, Samuel, 103
California
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Fountain Pen
- Cause and Effect
- Reds, Pinks, and Goo-Goos
- What’s in a Name
- Pippa Passes
- King Kong
- Some (Mainly) Musical Revelations
- Two Hangings
- Various Discoveries
- Farther Along; or, The Accident Chain
- On the Passivity of Jews
- Bruno Bettelheim and the Broke-Down Cowboy: Two American Stories
- Attention Must Be Paid
- Experts and Oligarchs
- Slave Lessons
- Belinda Raguesto Returns from Switzerland
- Hamlet and Oedipus Meet the Zombies
- A Message from Schpershevski
- Chelm; or, No Arrest for the Wicked
- Some Linguistic Curiosities
- The Nazis Got Your Mom
- Demotic, a Confession
- Grief and Wisdom
- Time Travel
- Moby Dick
- Real Live
- Rainy Day Fun for Shut-Ins: Xmas 2020
- Give My Regrets to Broadway
- Broadway
- Gags
- Humility
- Max the Hamster
- Disons le Mot
- Art, Time, and the Madness of the Old
- Tug-of-Peace
- The Awl Through the Ear
- Goodnight, Irene
- Recessional
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by David Mamet
- Copyright
- About the Publisher