American author, political philosopher and historian (born 1934)
For the American jazz musician, see Gary Willis.
Garry Wills
Wills at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in 2015
Born
(1934-05-22) May 22, 1934 (age 90) Atlanta, Georgia, US
Occupation
Author
journalist
historian
Alma mater
Saint Louis University (BA)
Xavier University (MA)
Yale University (PhD)
Period
1961–present
Subject
American politics and political history, the Catholic Church
Notable works
Nixon Agonistes (1970)
Inventing America (1978)
Lincoln at Gettysburg (1993)
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (1993)
National Medal for the Humanities (1998)
Spouse
Natalie Cavallo
(m. 1959; died 2019)
Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, political philosopher, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church. He won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1993.
Wills has written over fifty books and, since 1973, has been a frequent reviewer for The New York Review of Books.[1] He became a faculty member of the history department at Northwestern University in 1980, where he is an Emeritus Professor of History.
^Author's page for Garry Wills at the New York Review of Books website
GarryWills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, political philosopher, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and...
List of works by or about GarryWills, American historian and journalist. Wills, Garry (1961). Chesterton : man and mask. New York: Sheed & Ward. Animals...
According to GarryWills, however, this statement largely originates from Lamon's unreliable recollections and is not accepted as fact. In GarryWills's view...
(2005), The Glorious Cause, pp. 3–6, 51–52, 136 Wills, Inventing America, especially chs. 11–13. Wills concludes (p. 315) that "the air of enlightened...
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America was written by GarryWills, who was an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University at...
incompatible with "education". In a 2009 article called "Daredevil", GarryWills accused William F. Buckley of popularizing this trend, based on the success...
Sheehan (1989), Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by GarryWills (1993), and The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall...
Frank Meyer, and Willmoore Kendall, and Catholics L. Brent Bozell and GarryWills. The former Time editor Whittaker Chambers, who had been a Communist...
world". 7 December 2016 – via The Economic Times - The Times of India. GarryWills, Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of the Theater, pp. 88–90 Bradley, A.C. (1974)...
Dohrn; ethnographer Gary Alan Fine; Pulitzer Prize–winning historian GarryWills; American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow Monica Olvera de la Cruz...
other Cicero's, the voice of Rome. — Martial, Epigram I:60 (Trans. by GarryWills) The ancient Greeks and Romans regarded decapitation as a comparatively...
set the model for many more addresses in the following three decades. GarryWills focuses on it as an important precursor to President Lincoln's Gettysburg...
identity. While some classicists, including Mary Beard, Peter Green, and GarryWills have doubted or rejected Connelly's thesis, an increasing number of historians...
Gregorian Ramón Eduardo Ruiz Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Studs Terkel GarryWills 1999 Patricia Battin Taylor Branch Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Garrison Keillor...
cruelties" and called her message an "arid subhuman image of man"; and GarryWills regarded Rand a "fanatic". In the 21st century, the novel was referred...
which had originally been titled "Appeasement At Munich." The historian GarryWills claimed that the assistance amounted to rewriting and retitling the manuscript...
prize-winner [...] his plot is both simple and brilliant." Syndicated columnist GarryWills, writing in the Journal Inquirer, condemned the embrace of the novel...
theories have been welcomed and widely publicized in the popular press. GarryWills, a vocal proponent of liberal Catholicism, nonetheless strongly critiques...
|journal= (help) Stephen J. Whitfield (1981). "Review: The Pertinence of GarryWills" (PDF). American Quarterly. JSTOR 2712317. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal...
English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. Author and historian GarryWills has suggested The Education contradicts much of Adams' earlier work and...
was the first scholarly work to credit the Jefferson-Hemings liaison, GarryWills accepted the possibility of Jefferson having "sired" Sally Heming's seven...
hundred wills from 17th- and 18th-century Providence, Rhode Island, but these did not exist because the decedents had died intestate (i.e., without wills);...
law, is the meaning the lawmakers were understood to have intended." Wills, Garry (1999). A Necessary Evil: A history of American distrust of government...
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