010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2010049347 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
1595230769 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9781595230768 |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(OCoLC)681488415 |
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
320.5130973 Mam |
Item number |
9 |
090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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82107 |
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82106 |
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
Classification number |
320.5130973 Mam |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Mamet, David. frey50 |
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
The secret knowledge : |
Remainder of title |
on the dismantling of American culture / |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
David Mamet. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Sentinel, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2011. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xi, 241 p. ; |
Dimensions |
24 cm. |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
The political impulse -- The American reality -- Culture, school shootings, the audience, and the elevator -- Alcatraz -- Lost horizon -- The Music Man -- Choice -- The Red Sea -- Chicago -- Milton Friedman explained -- What is "diversity"? -- The Monty Hall problem and the contractor -- Maxwell Street -- R100 -- The intelligent person's guide to socialism and anti-Semitism -- The victim -- Puritans -- The noble savage -- Adventure slumming -- Cabinet spiritualism and the car czar -- Rumpelstiltskin -- My father, Al Sharpton, and the designated criminal -- Greed -- Arrested development -- Oakton Manor and Camp Kawaga -- Feminism -- The Ashkenazis -- Some personal history -- The family -- Naturally evolved institutions -- Breatharian -- The street sweeper and the surgeon, or Marxism examined -- Self-evident truth -- Hope and change -- The small refrigerator -- Bumper stickers -- Late revelations -- Who does one think he is? -- The secret knowledge. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
For the past thirty years, David Mamet has been a controversial and defining force in theater and film, championing the most cherished liberal values along the way. His characters have explored the ethics of the business world, embodied the struggles of the oppressed, and faced the flaws of the capitalist system. But in recent years Mamet has had a change of heart. He realized that the so-called mainstream media outlets he relied on were irredeemably biased, peddling a hypocritical, flawed worldview. In 2008 he wrote a controversial op-ed for The Village Voice, "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal,'" in which he methodically eviscerated liberal beliefs. Now he goes much deeper, employing his trademark intellectual force and vigor to take on all the key political and cultural issues of our times, from religion to political correctness to global warming.--From publisher description. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Right and left (Political science) |
Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Political culture |
Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
Geographic name |
United States |
General subdivision |
Politics and government |
Chronological subdivision |
21st century. |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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AJML |
Koha item type |
300 - 399 |
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320.5130973 Mam |
961 ## - |
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9 |