The Education of David Mamet

If there ever is a playwright who abhorred and explicitly rejected the culture of political correctness, it’s David Mamet. Many of his plays, like House of Games and Glengarry Glen Ross, were made into films (House of Games was directed by Mamet himself), and he also wrote a screenplay for Wag the Dog (1997), Hoffa (1992), and The Untouchables (1987), to name just a few films. His works are imbued with that singular American, Chicago-tough manliness, that comes through even in his female characters.