1. Mamet, Race. 2009. New York: Samuel French, 2010.
2. Mamet, The Secret Knowledge, On the Dismantling of American Culture. New York: Sentinel, 2011.
3. Mamet, Theatre. New York: Faber and Faber, 2010.
4. Alan Ackerman’s Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2011) does a much more sub-stantialjob in exposing the limitations of public discourse.
5. Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, Essays on Literature and Society (1950; Garden City, NY: Anchor Doubleday, 1953).