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The disenlightenment : politics, horror, and entertainment /

"Government, like Circe, turns men into swine," David Mamet writes in his latest political tour de force. Prepare to be challenged, enlightened and entertained by The Disenlightenment as Mamet dissects the modern world with enthusiasm, wisdom and lots of references to movies about the mafi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mamet, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Broadside Books, [2025].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Political science.
War.
Success.
Death.
Conservatism.
Political culture > United States.
Right and left (Political science) > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Open city : an introduction
  • Box jumper
  • The Kennedys
  • The shill
  • The springbok
  • The bally and the tip
  • No coups in England
  • "A dream is a wish your heart makes
  • Road trip
  • Hypothermia
  • Decision height
  • Dese dem dose
  • Come smoke a Coca-Cola
  • The temp score and the look back
  • The generation of the desert
  • Intersectionality
  • "The poor are always with us" explained
  • The zero point
  • Woody Allen and the IDF
  • Armageddon
  • Firewall
  • Upstage of the couch
  • The hangman's rope
  • Failing up and down
  • The Benjamins
  • Lesbians and whaling
  • Some maxims of Napoleon
  • Stonewall
  • Herman Melville and the Jews
  • Motherless children
  • Song of praise
  • Bartenders' guide : the Shirley Temple and the Molotov
  • Munchausen by proxy
  • My romance
  • Oklahoma
  • What shall we give the sun god?
  • Maverick
  • Carmen Miranda and the Panama Canal
  • The farmhouse
  • The wheel
  • The bus station
  • Gandhi n' me
  • Inherit the wind
  • The New Zealander
  • The long way around the barn.