David Mamet is another of my favourite writers. Certainly my favourite writer for stage and screen who is yet living. (I confess, I haven't seen one of his plays on stage, but a number of them have been made into movies I have seen, so I think it's fair to include stage.)
He recently wrote a book called The Secret Knowledge about his move from the left end of the political spectrum to the right. It wasn't quite that simple, though. Mamet talks about how he discovered over a period of time that while he thought of himself as a liberal or man of the left, he slowly discovered that he didn't believe or adhere to a lot of the positions that went along with that and discovered that, if he were to be honest about what his beliefs and positions entailed, he was actually a pretty conservative guy.
The book won't be earth-shattering for anyone who is conservative, nor will it be terribly persuasive for someone who is still a liberal, but it does do a good job of explaining one man's journey and there is a bit of red meat for those of us on the right. Mamet has never been one to pull punches and he doesn't start here. His flair for punchy, memorable dialogue comes through loud and clear on every page.
If you enjoy a good conservative polemic, are interested in how one man's political thought can evolve or just are a fan of David Mamet, it's probably worth a read.
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