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Many readers who have read David Mamet's new children's book, Henrietta, believe that his story of a hefty pig bluntly rejected from the Harvard Law School is an allusion to elitism and discrimination within the University...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz says the book has a "nice, light message which could be interpreted politically," but he says he does not think Mamet's story is directed at Harvard specifically. Rather, he says, it is a jab at elitism in general, as represented in universities and the Supreme Court...
Dahlie declined to comment for this article, while Mamet--author of such well-renowned plays as "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "American Buffalo"--has not given an interview about his book thus...
...Mamet's book was based on a real-life Henrietta, who also inspired the restaurant Henrietta's Table in the Charles Hotel...
About a year ago, "I asked my buddy David Mamet, who is a playwright, to write a book about Henrietta coming to Harvard," Friedman says...