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  • Recessional

  • The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
  • By: David Mamet
  • Narrated by: Jim Frangione
  • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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Recessional

By: David Mamet
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
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“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.
©2022 David Mamet (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers
Art Essays Politics & Government Funny Nonfiction
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A not so great book from a truly great writer.

The parts of this book concerned with writing are truly worth hearing/reading. Other parts are a little off the wall and some parts are just downright incorrect. See for example "Yeats is the greatest English poet since Shakespeare". Yeats was Irish but I can hear Mamet say "yes but we're talking about the English language". So in a nutshell this isn't for everyone...but is still very interesting.

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