Garry Wills: 33 books
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In Under God, Pulitzer Prize winner and eminent political observer Garry Wills sheds light on the frequent collision between American politics and American religion.
Beginning with the 1988 presidential contest, an election that included two ministers and a senator accused of sin, award-winning...
Font of Life
Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
No two men were more influential in the early Church than Ambrose, the powerful Bishop of Milan, and Augustine, the philosopher from provincial Africa who would write The Confessions and The City of God. Different in background, they were also extraordinarily different in personality. In Font of Life,...
What the Qur'an Meant
And Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
America’s leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur’an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient text
Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur’an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him...
A Necessary Evil
A History of American Distrust of Government
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In A Necessary Evil, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills shows that distrust of government is embedded deep in the American psyche. From the revolt of the colonies against king and parliament to present-day tax revolts, militia movements, and debates about term limits, Wills shows that American...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The New York Times bestselling historian takes on a pressing question in modern religion—will Pope Francis embrace change?
Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope and the first from the Americas, offers a challenge to his church. Can he bring about significant change? Should he?
Garry...
The Kennedy Imprisonment
A Meditation on Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
With a new preface: An “irreverent [and] entertaining” portrait of JFK, the Camelot mystique, and the politics of charisma (The Christian Science Monitor).
Described by the New York Times as “a sort of intellectual outlaw,” Garry Wills takes on the romantic myths surrounding the Kennedy...
Head and Heart
A History of Christianity in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.
Gary Wills has won significant acclaim for his bestselling works of religion and history. Here, for the first time, he combines both disciplines in a sweeping examination of Christianity in America throughout...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson was unable to make these ornaments come to life in his two classical Roman plays. Garry Wills, focusing his...
Nixon Agonistes
The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
With a new preface: A “stunning” analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times Book Review).
In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon’s infamous “enemies list,” Garry Wills takes...
Verdi's Shakespeare
Men of the Theater
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
A dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare- and a spellbinding account of their creation.
In Verdi's Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant Shakespearian operas: Macbeth, Othello,...
Making Make-Believe Real
Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Shakespeare’s plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe’s...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn protrait of a twentieth-century hero. In this work of great originality-the biography of an idea-Garry Wills shows how John...
James Madison
The American Presidents Series: The 4th President, 1809-1817
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A bestselling historian examines the life of a Founding Father.
Renowned historian and social commentator Garry Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the first...
Reagan's America
Innocents at Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
New York Times Bestseller: A “remarkable and evenhanded study of Ronald Reagan” from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times).
Updated with a new preface by the author, this captivating biography of America’s fortieth president recounts Ronald...