Garry Wills
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Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an author and historian, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. In 1993, he won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, which describes the background and impact of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863.
His book Nixon Agonistes landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.
Wills is an adjunct professor of history, both American and cultural, at Northwestern University. He graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1951 and received his PhD in classics from Yale in 1961. In 1995 Wills received a L.H.D. from Bates College. He has an honorary doctorate from the College of the Holy Cross.
Books
- Chesterton: Man and Mask (1961), ISBN 0385502907
- Animals of the Bible (1962)
- Politics and Catholic Freedom (1964)
- Roman Culture: Weapons and the Man (1966), ISBN 0807603678
- The Second Civil War: Arming for Armageddon (1968)
- Jack Ruby (1968), ISBN 0306805642
- Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-made Man (1970, 1979), ISBN 0451617509
- Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion (1972), ISBN 0385089708
- Values Americans Live By (1973), ISBN 0405041667
- Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (1978), ISBN 0385089767
- Confessions of a Conservative (1979), ISBN 0385089775
- At Button's (1979), ISBN 0836261089
- Explaining America: The Federalist (1981), ISBN 0385146892
- The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power (1982), ISBN 0316943851
- Lead Time: A Journalist's Education (1983), ISBN 0385176953
- Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment (1984), ISBN 0385175620
- Reagan's America: Innocents at Home (1987), ISBN 0385182864
- Under God: Religion and American Politics (1990), ISBN 0671657054
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (1992), ISBN 0671769561
- Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders (1994), ISBN 067165702X
- Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth (1995), ISBN 0195088794
- John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity (1997), ISBN 0684808234
- Saint Augustine (1999), ISBN 0670886106
- A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government (1999), ISBN 0684844893
- Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (2000), ISBN 0385494106
- Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire (2001), ISBN 0684871904
- Why I Am a Catholic (2002), ISBN 0618134298
- Mr. Jefferson's University (2002), ISBN 0792265319
- James Madison (2002), ISBN 0805069054
- Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power (2003), ISBN 0618343989
- Henry Adams and the Making of America (2005), ISBN 0618134301
- The Rosary: Prayer Comes Round (2005), ISBN 0670034495
- What Jesus Meant (2006), ISBN 0670034967
- What Paul Meant (forthcoming 2006), ISBN 0670037931
Critiques of Wills' Papal Sin
- [Papal Sin: Misrepresentation Corrected]
- "A New Syllabus of Errors" (Lawler, Justus George, The Month, February 2001)
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize
- National Medal for the Humanities in 1998
- National Book Critics Circle Award
Quotes
- "Only the winners decide what were war crimes."
- "reads like a combination of H. L. Mencken, John Locke and Albert Camus." — John Leonard, The New York Times [link]
External links
- [Northwestern bio]
- [NYRB pieces]
- [Thoughts on Nixon Agonistes]
- [The New York Review of Books]
- [History Faculty of NW university]
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