The Secret Knowledge (34 page)
Read The Secret Knowledge Online
Authors: David Mamet
Haichen, Sun. Comp. and trans.
The Wiles of War: 36 Military Strategies from Ancient China.
1991. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1996.
The Wiles of War: 36 Military Strategies from Ancient China.
1991. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1996.
Hayek, Friedrich A.
The Constitution of Liberty.
1960. Chicago, IL.: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
The Constitution of Liberty.
1960. Chicago, IL.: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
âââ.
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism.
1988. Ed. W. W. Bartley III. 19 vols. Chicago, IL.: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism.
1988. Ed. W. W. Bartley III. 19 vols. Chicago, IL.: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
âââ.
The Road to Serfdom.
1944. Introd. Milton Friedman. Chicago, IL.: University of Chicago Press, 1971.
The Road to Serfdom.
1944. Introd. Milton Friedman. Chicago, IL.: University of Chicago Press, 1971.
Hazlitt, William.
On the Pleasure of Hating: Love Turns, with a Little Indulgence, to Indifference or Disgust: Hatred Alone Is Immortal.
2004. London: Penguin, 2005.
On the Pleasure of Hating: Love Turns, with a Little Indulgence, to Indifference or Disgust: Hatred Alone Is Immortal.
2004. London: Penguin, 2005.
âââ.
Selected Writings.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Selected Writings.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Hilfer, Tony.
The New Hegemony in Literary Studies: Contradictions in Theory.
Evanston, IL.: Northwestern University Press, 2003.
The New Hegemony in Literary Studies: Contradictions in Theory.
Evanston, IL.: Northwestern University Press, 2003.
Hoffer, Eric.
Reflections on the Human Condition.
1972. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
Reflections on the Human Condition.
1972. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
âââ.
The Temper of Our Time.
New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
The Temper of Our Time.
New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
âââ.
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movement.
1951. New York: Perennial Classics, 2002.
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movement.
1951. New York: Perennial Classics, 2002.
âââ.
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal: June 1958âMay 1959.
New York: Perennial Library, 1970.
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal: June 1958âMay 1959.
New York: Perennial Library, 1970.
Hollander, Paul.
Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad 1965â1990.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad 1965â1990.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
âââ.
Discontents: Postmodern & Postcommunist.
New Brunswick, NJ.: Transaction Publishers, 2002.
Discontents: Postmodern & Postcommunist.
New Brunswick, NJ.: Transaction Publishers, 2002.
âââ.
Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba 1928â1978.
New York: Harper Colophon, 1983.
Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba 1928â1978.
New York: Harper Colophon, 1983.
Hollis, Christopher.
Foreigners Aren't Fools.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937.
Foreigners Aren't Fools.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937.
âââ.
Noble Castle.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1941.
Noble Castle.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1941.
âââ.
The Death of a Gentleman: The Letters of Robert Fossett.
1943. London: Burns Oates, 1945.
The Death of a Gentleman: The Letters of Robert Fossett.
1943. London: Burns Oates, 1945.
Horowitz, David.
Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes.
Dallas, TX.: Spence Publishing Company, 1999.
Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes.
Dallas, TX.: Spence Publishing Company, 1999.
Hubbard, Elbert.
A Message to Garcia.
New York: Classic Books America, 2009.
A Message to Garcia.
New York: Classic Books America, 2009.
Huizinga, Johan.
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture.
1950. Boston, MA.: Beacon Press, 1955.
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture.
1950. Boston, MA.: Beacon Press, 1955.
Ingrassia, Paul.
Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster.
New York: Random House, 2010.
Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster.
New York: Random House, 2010.
Jackson, Bruce, Comp.
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition.
1974. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition.
1974. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Johnson, Paul.
A History of the American People.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicol-son, 1997.
A History of the American People.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicol-son, 1997.
âââ.
Intellectuals.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
Intellectuals.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
âââ.
The Offshore Islanders: A History of the English People.
1972. London: Phoenix, 1992.
The Offshore Islanders: A History of the English People.
1972. London: Phoenix, 1992.
Lewis, Bernard.
What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Lomborg, Bjørn.
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Lyons, Eugene.
The Red Decade: The Classic Work on Communism in America During the Thirties.
1941. New Rochelle, NY.: Arlington House, 1970.
The Red Decade: The Classic Work on Communism in America During the Thirties.
1941. New Rochelle, NY.: Arlington House, 1970.
Macaulay, Lord.
The History of England.
1848â1861. Ed. and Introd. Hugh Trevor-Roper. London: Penguin, 1968.
The History of England.
1848â1861. Ed. and Introd. Hugh Trevor-Roper. London: Penguin, 1968.
Mackay, Charles.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
1841. Foreword. Bernard M. Baruch. USA: Noonday, 1972.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
1841. Foreword. Bernard M. Baruch. USA: Noonday, 1972.
Manchester, William.
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880â1964.
1978. New York: Dell, 1983.
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880â1964.
1978. New York: Dell, 1983.
Maugham, W. Somerset.
The Narrow Corner.
1932. London: Penguin Classics, 1993.
The Narrow Corner.
1932. London: Penguin Classics, 1993.
McDonough, Yona Zeldis.
Coffee with Marilyn.
Foreword. Gloria Steinem. London: Duncan Baird, 2007.
Coffee with Marilyn.
Foreword. Gloria Steinem. London: Duncan Baird, 2007.
Mencken, H. L.
The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
. 1919. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
. 1919. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Michener, James A.
Kent State: What Happened and Why.
New York: Random House, 1971.
Kent State: What Happened and Why.
New York: Random House, 1971.
Mill, John Stuart.
On Liberty.
1859. Ed. and introd. Gertrude Himmelfarb. London: Penguin, 1985.
On Liberty.
1859. Ed. and introd. Gertrude Himmelfarb. London: Penguin, 1985.
Mitford, Nancy.
Madame de Pompadour.
1953. Introd. Amanda Foreman. New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2001.
Madame de Pompadour.
1953. Introd. Amanda Foreman. New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2001.
Montague, Charles Edward.
Disenchantment
. New York: Brentano 1922. n.p.: General Books, 2009.
Disenchantment
. New York: Brentano 1922. n.p.: General Books, 2009.
Moyo, Dambisa.
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa.
Foreword. Niall Ferguson. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa.
Foreword. Niall Ferguson. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie.
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.
1960. Introduction, Marina Warner. New York: New York Review Books, 2001.
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.
1960. Introduction, Marina Warner. New York: New York Review Books, 2001.
Paine, Thomas.
Common Sense.
1776. Ed. and introd. Isaac Kramnick. London: Penguin, 1986.
Common Sense.
1776. Ed. and introd. Isaac Kramnick. London: Penguin, 1986.
Pareto, Vilfredo.
The Mind and Society: A Treatise on General Sociology.
1935. Trans. Andrew Bongiorno and Arthur Livingston. ed. Arthur Livingston. 4 vols. New York: Dover, 1963.
The Mind and Society: A Treatise on General Sociology.
1935. Trans. Andrew Bongiorno and Arthur Livingston. ed. Arthur Livingston. 4 vols. New York: Dover, 1963.
Pence, Mike. “The Presidency and the Constitution.”
Imprimis.
Oct. 2010.
www.hillsdale.edu/images/userImages/mvanderwei/.../Imprimis_Oct10.pdf.
Imprimis.
Oct. 2010.
www.hillsdale.edu/images/userImages/mvanderwei/.../Imprimis_Oct10.pdf.
Phillips, Melanie.
The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power.
New York: Encounter Books, 2010.
The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power.
New York: Encounter Books, 2010.
Plimer, Ian.
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming the Missing Science.
Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming the Missing Science.
Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
Pondhoretz, Norman.
Why Are Jews Liberals?
New York: Doubleday, 2009.
Why Are Jews Liberals?
New York: Doubleday, 2009.
Priestly, J. B.
Apes and Angels.
London: The Library Press, 1928.
Apes and Angels.
London: The Library Press, 1928.
Radford, R. A. “The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp.”
Economica.
vol. 12, 1945.
Economica.
vol. 12, 1945.
Rand, Ayn.
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.
New York: Signet, 1971.
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.
New York: Signet, 1971.
Roots, Ivan, ed.
Cromwell: A Profile.
Gen. ed. Aida DiPlace Donald. New York: Hill and Wang, 1973.
Cromwell: A Profile.
Gen. ed. Aida DiPlace Donald. New York: Hill and Wang, 1973.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
The Social Contract: On Principles of Political Right.
Amsterdam, 1762.
The Social Contract: On Principles of Political Right.
Amsterdam, 1762.
Shlaes, Amity.
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.
New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.
New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
Shute, Nevil.
Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer.
1954. London: Pan Books, 1968.
Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer.
1954. London: Pan Books, 1968.
Simons, Anna.
The Company They Keep: Life Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces.
New York: Simon & Schuster Children's, 1997.
The Company They Keep: Life Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces.
New York: Simon & Schuster Children's, 1997.
Smith, Adam.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
2 vols. London, 1776.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
2 vols. London, 1776.
Sontag, Susan. “Some Thoughts on the Right Way (for us) to Love the Cuban Revolution.”
Ramparts
, Apr. 1969: 6â19.
Ramparts
, Apr. 1969: 6â19.
Sowell, Thomas.
Black Education: Myths and Tragedies.
New York: David McKay, 1972.
Black Education: Myths and Tragedies.
New York: David McKay, 1972.
âââ.
Economic Facts and Fallacies.
New York: Basic, 2008.
Economic Facts and Fallacies.
New York: Basic, 2008.
âââ.
Ethnic America: A History.
New York: Basic, 1981.
Ethnic America: A History.
New York: Basic, 1981.
âââ.
Intellectuals and Society.
New York: Basic, 2009.
Intellectuals and Society.
New York: Basic, 2009.
âââ.
On Classical Economics.
New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 2006.
On Classical Economics.
New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 2006.
âââ.
Pink and Brown People and Other Controversial Essays.
Stanford, CA.: Hoover Institution Press, 1981.
Pink and Brown People and Other Controversial Essays.
Stanford, CA.: Hoover Institution Press, 1981.
Stauss, Leo.
Natural Right and History.
1953. Foreword. Jerome Kerwin. Preface. Leo Strauss. Chicago, IL.: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
Natural Right and History.
1953. Foreword. Jerome Kerwin. Preface. Leo Strauss. Chicago, IL.: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
Steele, Shelby.
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win.
New York: Free Press, 2008.
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win.
New York: Free Press, 2008.
âââ.
White Guilt: How Blacks and White Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era.
London: HarperCollins, 2006.
White Guilt: How Blacks and White Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era.
London: HarperCollins, 2006.
Szasz, Thomas.
Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry.
1977. Syracuse, NY.: Syracuse University Press, 1984.
Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry.
1977. Syracuse, NY.: Syracuse University Press, 1984.
Taylor, Mitchell. “Last Stand of our Wild Polar Bears.”
The Toronto Star,
27 Apr. 2006.
The Toronto Star,
27 Apr. 2006.
Tolstoy, Leo.
War and Peace.
1869. Trans. Rosemary Edmonds. London: Penguin Classics, 1982.
War and Peace.
1869. Trans. Rosemary Edmonds. London: Penguin Classics, 1982.
Trevor-Roper, H. R.
The European Witch-Craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and Other Essays.
1956. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1969.
The European Witch-Craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and Other Essays.
1956. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1969.
âââ.
The Last Days of Hitler.
1962. New York: Collier, 1965.
The Last Days of Hitler.
1962. New York: Collier, 1965.
âââ.
The Philby Affair: Espionage, Treason and Secret Services.
London: William Kimber, 1968.
The Philby Affair: Espionage, Treason and Secret Services.
London: William Kimber, 1968.
Trollope, Anthony.
Dr. Wortle's School.
1881. Ed. and introd. John Halperin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Dr. Wortle's School.
1881. Ed. and introd. John Halperin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
âââ.
Phineas Finn: The Irish Member.
1869. Ed. and introd. and notes. Jacques Berthoud. Illust. T.L.B. Huskinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Phineas Finn: The Irish Member.
1869. Ed. and introd. and notes. Jacques Berthoud. Illust. T.L.B. Huskinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
âââ.
The Duke's Children.
1879. Ed. and introd. and notes. Hermione Lee. Illust. Charles Mozley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
The Duke's Children.
1879. Ed. and introd. and notes. Hermione Lee. Illust. Charles Mozley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Trotter, W.
Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War.
1915. New York: Macmillan, n.d.
Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War.
1915. New York: Macmillan, n.d.
Veblen, Thorstein.
The Engineers and the Price System.
1921. New York: Viking Press, 1944.
The Engineers and the Price System.
1921. New York: Viking Press, 1944.
âââ.
The Higher Learning in America.
1918. Stanford, CA.: Academic Reprints, 1920.
The Higher Learning in America.
1918. Stanford, CA.: Academic Reprints, 1920.
âââ.
The Instincts of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts.
1914. Introd. Murray G. Murphey. New Brunswick, NJ.: Transaction Publishers, 1990.
The Instincts of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts.
1914. Introd. Murray G. Murphey. New Brunswick, NJ.: Transaction Publishers, 1990.
âââ.
The Theory of the Leisure Class.
1899. London: Penguin Classics, 1998.
The Theory of the Leisure Class.
1899. London: Penguin Classics, 1998.
Waugh, Auberon.
Will This Do? The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh: An Autobiography.
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998.
Will This Do? The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh: An Autobiography.
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998.
White, William Allen.
Masks in a Pageant.
New York: Macmillan, 1928.
Masks in a Pageant.
New York: Macmillan, 1928.
âââ.
Some Cycles of Cathay.
Chapel Hill, NC.: University of North Carolina Press; London: Humphrey Milford-Oxford University, 1925.
Some Cycles of Cathay.
Chapel Hill, NC.: University of North Carolina Press; London: Humphrey Milford-Oxford University, 1925.
âââ.
What It's All About: Being a Reporter's Story of The Early Campaign of 1936.
New York: Macmillan, 1936.
What It's All About: Being a Reporter's Story of The Early Campaign of 1936.
New York: Macmillan, 1936.
INDEX
Aaron
Abihu
abortion
ACLU
affirmative action
Afghanistan War
Africa
African Americans
aid, foreign
Air Ministry
Airspeed Ltd.
Albright, Madeleine
Alinsky, Saul
Al Qaeda
American Buddhism
American Buffalo
(Mamet)
(Mamet)
American Casesar
(Manchester)
(Manchester)
anarchy
Anna Karenina
(Tolstoy)
(Tolstoy)
anti-Semitism
see also
Israel; Jews
see also
Israel; Jews
Arabs
see also
Palestinians
Palestinians
Aramaic
Aristotle
Arizona
Ashkenazi immigration
Asian Americans
Assange, Julian
atheism
autism
auto industry
aviation
bailouts
Bard, Mitchell Geoffrey
Batman
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Lord
Bettelheim, Bruno
Bible
birth control
Black Power
Black Sox (1919)
Boesky, Ivan
bottled water
Boy Scouts
B.P. Gulf oil leak
Brancker, Sefton
Brawley, Tawana
Brecht, Bertolt
Bridge on the River Kwai, The
British Empire
Broaddrick, Juanita
bumper stickers
bureaucracy
Bush, George W.
busing
Butler, Samuel
cabinet spiritualists
California
Campesinos
Camp Kawaga
capital
capitalism
Capone, Al
carbon dioxide
cargo cult
Carter, Jimmy
Castro, Fidel
Cavanaugh, Bernard
Cézanne
Chambers, Whittaker
“change”
Chasidic masters
Chicago, Ill.
China
Chomsky, Noam
Chopra, Deepak
Christianity
Christy, John R.
Chrysler
churches
Churchill, Winston
Civilian Conservation Corps
Civil Rights Act
Civil War, U.S.
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Code Pink
Coffee with Marilyn
(McDonough)
(McDonough)
cohabitation
Cold War
college
colonialism
comic books
communes
Communism
Communist International
computer
Congress, U.S.
and power to declare war
Conservatives
in election of 2008
Left's misunderstanding of
see also
tragic view of life
tragic view of life
conspicuous consumption
Constitution, U.S.
constrained world-view
Consumer Safety Board
corporations
Corvair
counterculture
covetousness
Crash Course
(Ingrassia)
(Ingrassia)
Other books
Everville by Clive Barker
Robert Crews by Thomas Berger
The Big Breach by Richard Tomlinson
Pineapple Grenade by Tim Dorsey
Bad Blood by Evans, Geraldine
Listen to Your Heart by Mona Ingram
Mindscape: Book 2 of the New Frontiers Series by Jasper T. Scott
Lemon Meringue Pie Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries) by Fluke, Joanne
Bandwidth by Angus Morrison
