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Garry Wills's Books
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Lincoln at GettysburgIn a masterly work, Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence to write the greatest speech in the nation’s history.Read More -
Venice: Lion CityGarry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth...Read More
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A Necessary EvilIn A Necessary Evil, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills shows that distrust of government is embedded deep in the American psyche. From the...Read More
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John Wayne's AmericaThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this...Read More
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Washington Times, February 10, 2012
...ROME AND RHETORIC: SHAKESPEARE?S JULIUS CAESARBy Garry Wills, $25, 200 pages First, let?s acknowledge that Garry Wills? book-length discussion of ? is full of useful information and likely to be an indispensable companion to students of the...
New York Times, January 11, 2012
...book “often wise and often funny.” Perhaps the most wide-ranging and remarkable example of a campaign chronicle is Garry Wills’s pre-Watergate “Nixon Agonistes,” which brilliantly examines the 1968 campaign and its eventual winner, illuminating...
New York Review of Books, December 22, 2011
...who died on December 2—Kings, War Music, and others—?the best translation of Homer since [Alexander] Pope?s,? as Garry Wills called them in these pages.* Many of the questions raised by Rattigan underlie what I have to say. I?m not here to convince...
Catholic Education Resource Center, December 22, 2011
...to find that he has served as an icon to writers as diverse as William F. Buckley Jr., Garry Wills, C.S. Lewis and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman (who paid him homage with the character "Gilbert" in his Sandman comics). Born in 1874 into a middle-class...
Religious Studies Review, December 8, 2011
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The Hindu, November 29, 2011
...the Soviet system "profoundly corrupt" and likened the K.G.B. to the Gestapo. Writing in Esquire magazine, Garry Wills and Ovid Demaris - under the headline "How the Daughter of Stalin Denounced Communism and Embraced God, America and Apple Pie" - said...
WorldNetDaily, November 16, 2011
...it had apparently sunk because he had been inattentive as a commander, as (Pulitzer-Prize winning author and historian) Garry Wills long ago pointed out. JFK himself worried that the events could justify either a medal or a court martial. In the end, he...
Front Porch Republic, October 10, 2011
...Secular Age . This book has been justly trounced by such varied authors as David B. Hart and Garry Wills (to which the authors have provided a response ), but I wanted my review to serve the book, in the sense of trying to offer the most compelling...
A plain blog about politics, October 7, 2011
...Five great books that I think people that I don't think I've mentioned too many times: Garry Wills, Nixon Agonisties (Nixon, but also 1968 and more); John Jacobs, A Rage for Justice (about Phillip Burton); Richard Fenno, Going Home (representation and...
The Phil Nugent Experience, September 23, 2011
...the White House than when he entered it, Bush can't shut up about Harry Truman, and as Garry Wills once pointed out, Truman's admirers also seemed to expect the former president's detractors to fall to their knees sobbing with remorse when they were...
Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate, September 18, 2011
...cognitive capacities max out at three to five intimate friendships. Time to shrink our social networks?... more» Watching Garry Wills. The liberal, Catholic ex-conservative who made enemies of both Nixon and Alger Hiss remains a paradox... more»...
The New York Observer, July 29, 2011
...Succession, by Michael Wolff II. THE NEWSPAPERMAN, PART I In Cold Type (Murdoch Buys the Chicago Sun-Times), by Garry Wills Murdoch and Me, by Andrew Neil Paper Lions (Zuckerman’s Daily News versus Murdoch’s Post), by Edward Klein The Gossip...
Why Evolution Is True, July 24, 2011
...In today's New York Times, the prolific Garry Wills, who was a Catholic last time I looked, reviews two books on religions and how they are funded: Inside Scientology, by Janet Reitman, and Render Unto Rome: The Secret...
ArtsBeat, July 22, 2011
...In this Sunday’s Book Review, the author and critic Garry Wills praises Janet Reitman’s “Inside Scientology”:Reitman, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone who spent five years trying to pierce the walls Scientologists put up against outsiders,...
