Garry Wills, Author Simon & Schuster $16 (336p) ISBN 978-0-684-80138-4
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg) looks at the relationship between known leaders and their followers while exploring factors that help foster successful leadership. (May)
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Garry Wills. Viking, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-42696-7
Is it possible, or even prudent, for an institution that has survived for 2,000 years to change? The Catholic Church, according to Wills (Why I Am a Catholic), professor emeritus at Northwestern University, has changed substantially over the course...
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Garry Wills. Viking, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-02487-2
Do we really need Catholic priests? Wills, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Why I Am a Catholic, dares to pose this controversial question during a time when vocations have declined drastically, leaving some Catholics without access to the...
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Garry Wills. Oxford Univ., $21.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-19-976851-6
In his latest book, prolific author and historian Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg) takes the reader beneath Milan’s famed cathedral to the “font of life,” the baptistry where Ambrose baptized Augustine in 387 C.E. He explores the historical moment...
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Garry Wills. Yale Univ, $25 (192p) ISBN 978-0-300-15218-0
Pulitzer Prize–winner Wills, who penetrated Abraham Lincoln’s rhetoric in Lincoln at Gettysburg, now shows how the four major characters in Julius Caesar reveal Shakespeare’s uncanny, effortless, and intuitive mastery of Quintilian, Socrates, and...
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Garry Wills . Viking, $25.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-670-02304-2
Opera aficionados will delight in Wills's (Outside Looking In) thoughtful, deeply rehearsed essays on Verdi's treatment of Shakespeare's plays. Both the Elizabethan playwright and the 19th-century composer were steeped in the language and logistics...
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Garry Wills, Author Doubleday Books $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-49410-6
Fans of Wills, one of America's foremost writers on religion, were mildly disappointed with his 1999 biography of Saint AugustineDnot because it was anything less than brilliant, but because it was so short. They needn't have worried. In his new...
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Garry Wills, Author Viking Books $19.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-670-88610-4
In the West, Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is most famous for his teaching on original sin. He believed, and the Catholic Church continues to affirm, that we are all marked from birth with the stain of sin. This sin, he argued, was transmitted to us...
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Garry Wills, Author Oxford University Press, USA $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-19-508879-3
Pulitzer Prize-winning Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg) here turns his attention to a new interpretation of MacBeth. Originally performed in 1606, a year after the failed Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English monarchy and Parliament, the play was...
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Garry Wills, Author Simon & Schuster $24.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-65705-5
Explicating his theory that religion is an inextricable element of American political life, Wills sheds new light on the 1988 presidential campaign. While George Bush wooed Jerry Falwell and extolled patriotism, religion, law and order, Jesse...
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Garry Wills, Author Penguin Books $10.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-14-010557-5
Adding a new chapter on Reagan's legacy that did not appear in the hardcover edition, Wills examines aspects of the President's life and career that account for his personal popularity with the American public. PW voted in favor of this study, which
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Garry Wills, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-684-84489-3
In a masterful extended essay, Wills, an accomplished analyst of the American political psyche (and winner of a 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Lincoln at Gettysburg), explores, in all its guises, the great American distrust of government. Antigovernment...
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Garry Wills, Author Simon & Schuster $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-684-80823-9
Having written about the founding fathers (Inventing America), the presidency (Nixon Agonistes; Reagan's America) and Shakespeare (Witches and Jesuits), Wills now turns his powerful intellect and considerable reportorial skills to another icon: John
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Garry Wills, Author National Geographic Society $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6531-3
Skilled historians have a way of making the past seem more vivid than the present, and Wills (whose Lincoln at Gettysburg won a Pulitzer) is no exception. His new book is part of National Geographic's series devoted to travel writing (other titles...
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Garry Wills, Author . Simon & Schuster $35 (416p) ISBN 978-0-684-87190-5
What Simon Schama's An Embarrassment of Riches
did for Renaissance Holland, Wills—prolific author, historian, translator and critic (John Wayne's America)—tries here with Renaissance Venice. He organizes the book strictly into
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Garry Wills, Viking, $25.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-02214-4
This is an episodic but completely captivating collection by the prolific journalist, historian, political columnist, and practicing Catholic Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg). Now 76, he writes an intensely opinionated re-evaluation of leaders he has...
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Garry Wills, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-76956-7
Wills ( Inventing America ) combines semantics and political analysis in this account of the most famous speech in U.S. history. He puts Lincoln's words in their cultural and intellectual contexts, establishing the contributions of New England...
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Garry Wills, Author . Penguin Press $27.95 (278p) ISBN 978-1-59420-240-7
The demands of nuclear weapons policy have poisoned the American polity, according to this unfocused jeremiad. Historian Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg
) argues that the project of deploying and defending against nuclear weapons transformed America...
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Garry Wills, Author . Viking $24.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-670-01871-0
Wills’s follow-up to his bestselling works, What Jesus Meant
and What Paul Meant
, sheds new light on the four books of the Bible best known to most Christians. In taking the gospels apart, Wills helps readers see the oft-read stories from...
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Garry Wills, Author . Viking $24.95 (193p) ISBN 978-0-670-03793-3
This slender volume is something of a sequel to Wills's blockbuster What Jesus Meant
; here, Wills defends Paul from detractors who insist that the apostle corrupted Jesus' radical message. Beginning with a reminder that Paul's letters...
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Garry Wills, Author . Viking $24.95 (143p) ISBN 978-0-670-03496-3
Christianity has been twisted and warped to such an extent that not even Jesus would recognize it now. This is Wills's thesis in his stimulating, fresh look into the life and message of Jesus of Nazareth. The now-ubiquitous phrase, "What...
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Garry Wills, Author . Houghton Mifflin $30 (467p) ISBN 978-0-618-13430-4
Wills nimbly dusts off the nine volumes of Henry Adams's little-studied history of the United States from 1800 to 1817 and proclaims it to be both "a prose masterpiece" and a model for how to research and write history. Adams, he insists,
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Garry Wills, Author . Viking $24.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-670-03449-9
Wills (Why I Am a Catholic
) shares his personal practice of the rosary in a book that is both inspiring and refreshing. His approach excels chiefly in the reflections he has written on the gospel stories that are used as subjects of contemplation...
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Garry Wills, Author . Viking $23.95 (103p) ISBN 978-0-670-03241-9
In his third volume of translations from "Saint Augustine's Confessions," Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Wills again questions whether this document is really about sexual debauchery. It has long been believed that these "Confession
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Garry Wills, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (274p) ISBN 978-0-618-34398-0
While Pulitzer-winner Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg, etc.) rarely writes a book without a distinctive take on its subject, in this shaggy work he's off his game. Originally a set of lectures, this book is only loosely stitched together. Its...
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Garry Wills, Author . Houghton Mifflin $26 (390p) ISBN 978-0-618-13429-8
In this "unintended sequel" to his 2000 book, Papal Sin, Wills tries to answer the many readers who asked why he remains a Catholic even as he has criticized its authority figures, especially the current pope. He begins with a very personal,
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Garry Wills, Author, Gary Will, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-671-65702-4
For this unusual study, Wills ( Lincoln at Gettysburg ) has chosen 16 figures who exemplify a distinctive leadership type--for example, military (Napoleon), charismatic (King David), saintly (Catholic worker activist Dorothy Day). Each leader is...
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Garry Wills, Author, Garry Wills, Read by , read by the author. Blackstone Audio $24.95 (0p) ISBN 9-780786-16680-0
Wills builds on the popularity of his bestseller What Jesus Meant
in this audio version of his newest book. The apostle Paul's teachings have caused controversy almost from the minute he penned the letters to the first-century churches he...
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Garry Wills, Author, Gary Wills, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (472p) ISBN 978-0-385-18286-7
Ambitious and insightful, this study examines aspects of Ronald Reagan's life and career that account for his extraordinary popularity with the American public. Wills, author of Nixon Agonistes and Inventing America, portrays a Reagan whose...
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Garry Wills, Author, Mel Foster, Read by , read by Mel Foster. Tantor Audio $49.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0578-6
Wills offers his insights into the ties between the history of the United States and Christianity, beginning with the founding fathers all the way to the current regime. The story is enlightening and a fascinating glimpse into a relatively...
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Garry Wills, Author, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., Editor, Gary Wills, Author . Holt/Times $20 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6905-1
It's tough to write a compelling biography of Madison: though a great politician, he was also a provincial, cerebral and slightly dull man; any account of his life must contain the kinds of dry legislation—the Non-Intercourse Act, Macon
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Garry Wills. Viking, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-101-98102-3
Having translated the messages of the Christian Gospels and Paul’s epistles, Wills (Why Priests?) now attempts to explain the Qur’an in plain language. Wills situates his account within the context of the “global war on terror” and provides a...
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Garry Wills, read by Stephen Hoye, Tantor Media, unabridged, seven CDs, 7.5 hours, $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1508-2
Wills’s stimulating study makes the case that since the emergence of the nuclear bomb, the U.S. has shifted toward an executive-dominated government, a move fully developed and rationalized during the cold war as a necessary expedient in decision...
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