The Secret Knowledge

The Pulitzer Prize - winning author and former liberal tackles the key issues of our time in this New York Times bestseller.

For the past thirty years, David Mamet has been a controversial and defining force in theater and film, championing the most cherished liberal values. In some of the great movies and plays of our time, 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 were irredeemably biased, peddling a hypocritical, suborned, and deeply flawed worldview. Now he employs 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.

'In this book Mamet doesn't become conservative so much as discover-as an unblinking student of reality-that he already is. It is the courageous initiation story of a man who finally finds his politics by accepting his own hard-earned wisdom. The best-and most personal-political book I've read in years.' Shelby Steele, senior fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, author of White Guilt

'It's part conversion memoir, part anthropology, part rant, part steel-trap argument-the testimony of a highly intelligent man who has wrenched himself from one sphere and is now declaring his citizenship in another, very loudly.' Andrew Ferguson, The Weekly Standard

'An amusingly irritating present for a liberal friend.' Andrew Klavan, The Wall Street Journal

'It is exhilarating to hear so much common sense expressed with such forceful eloquence.' Kurt Loder, Reason

'He thrives on provoking his audience and has done so in real life by becoming a conservative, and writing a book . . . .that grinds into dust his erstwhile liberalism.' John Gapper, Financial Times