David Mamet: Recessional
Recessional
Buch
- The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 04/2022
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780063158993
- Bestellnummer: 10683419
- Umfang: 240 Seiten
- Gewicht: 646 g
- Maße: 229 x 152 mm
- Stärke: 23 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 14.4.2022
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.
Biografie
David Mamet, 1947 in Chicago geboren, Dramatiker (u. a. "Oleanna", "Hanglage Meerblick", für das er 1984 den Pulitzerpreis erhielt), Drehbuchautor ("Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt", "Die Unbestechlichen") und Regisseur ("Haus der Spiele") zählt zu den wichtigsten amerikanischen Autoren der Gegenwart. Zuletzt wurde sein Drehbuch "Wag the Dog" mit Robert De Niro und Dustin Hoffman von Barry Levinson verfilmt. Sein letzter eigener Film war "Spanish Prisoner" ("Die unsichtbare Falle"). David Mamet
Recessional
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