Garry Wills's Books
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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 -
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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Certain TrumpetsThis “beautifully written and reasoned” (Booklist) narrative by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills examines what constitutes...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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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...Read More
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Chicago Reader, June 4, 2013
...of my favorite writers was reviewing another of my favorite writers. I feared mayhem. William PfaffNorthwestern's own Garry Wills is good for about one erudite book on a recondite subject per year. I'd just read Rome and Rhetoric, his brilliant parsing...
American Spectator, June 4, 2013
...to drink. As a conservative, Antle’s sympathies lie with the Republican Party—but only slightly more than, say, Garry Wills’ sympathies lie with the Roman Catholic Church. Thankfully, Antle doesn’t have much use for Reagan’s 11th...
America Magazine, May 21, 2013
...more attention to the critical review, and the author is likely to come across as petty and defensive. Garry Wills, a frequent contributor to the New York of Books, breaks this unwritten rule in the latest issue, writing a rather petulant response to...
Irish Times, April 20, 2013
...Testament. Nor is the phenomenon of priesthood evident in the practices of the early church. How then, asks Garry Wills, did the priesthood become so central to Christianity, and particularly to the Roman Catholic Church, and why is there such an...
Common Dreams, April 5, 2013
...from Project Censored, and has won the praise of noted journalists such as Les Payne, Molly Ivins and Garry Wills. He is co-author of The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error (The New Press, 1995, New York City...
New York Review of Books, April 4, 2013
...I always find the writings of Garry Wills enlightening, scholarly, and humane. But I winced when, speaking of Chaucer’s “Prioress’s Tale,” he refers to “the twisted art of Chaucer” [“,” NYR, March 21]. A number...
Catholic San Francisco, March 27, 2013
...The hermeneutical key to Garry Wills’ preposterous book “Why Priests? A Failed Tradition” can be found in the second chapter, which is a memoir of the author’s Catholic boyhood in the 1940s and 1950s...
Cato Institute, June 4, 2013
...to drink. As a conservative, Antle’s sympathies lie with the Republican Party—but only slightly more than, say, Garry Wills’ sympathies lie with the Roman Catholic Church. Thankfully, Antle doesn’t have much use for Reagan’s 11th Commandment:...
Chicago Reader, June 4, 2013
...of my favorite writers was reviewing another of my favorite writers. I feared mayhem. William PfaffNorthwestern's own Garry Wills is good for about one erudite book on a recondite subject per year. I'd just read Rome and Rhetoric, his brilliant parsing...
Chicago Reader, June 4, 2013
...of my favorite writers was reviewing another of my favorite writers. I feared mayhem. William PfaffNorthwestern's own Garry Wills is good for about one erudite book on a recondite subject per year. I'd just read Rome and Rhetoric, his brilliant parsing...
World News Network, June 4, 2013
...co-founder Steven Calabresi;[147] former Weatherman Bernardine Rae Dohrn;[148] ethnographer Gary Alan Fine;[149] Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills;[150] and MacArthur Fellowship recipients Stuart Dybek, and Jennifer Richeson. Notable former...
American Spectator, June 4, 2013
...to drink. As a conservative, Antle’s sympathies lie with the Republican Party—but only slightly more than, say, Garry Wills’ sympathies lie with the Roman Catholic Church. Thankfully, Antle doesn’t have much use for Reagan’s 11th...
AllVoices, June 1, 2013
...or understanding: "War was going to get a quantum leap it would in no way be the identical" Garry Wills. And on top of that barbells are commonly unwanted in toughness education for women of all ages. work fitness...
TVO.org, May 30, 2013
...Can you imagine Christianity without priests? In his newest book, author Garry Wills argues that Christian priests would have been unthinkable to Jesus and most early Christians. He sits down with Steve Paikin to explain how the Letters to the Hebrews...
