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Garry Wills

Born

in Atlanta, Georgia, The United States

May 22, 1934

Genre

History, Nonfiction

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Garry Wills 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. He became a faculty member of the history department at Northwestern University in 1980, where he is an Emeritus Professor of History.

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	Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America 4.16 avg rating — 8,375 ratings — published 1992 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	James Madison by Garry Wills, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Editor) 3.81 avg rating — 1,645 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Jesus Meant 3.91 avg rating — 1,205 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man 4.19 avg rating — 631 ratings — published 1969 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Paul Meant 3.68 avg rating — 695 ratings — published 2006 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters 3.73 avg rating — 444 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint Augustine 3.57 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 1999 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit 3.86 avg rating — 380 ratings — published 2000 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why I Am A Catholic 3.60 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State 3.90 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 1979 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Only the winners decide what were war crimes. ”
― Garry Wills

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“Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.”
― Garry wills, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

tags: accountability, democracy, government, participation, secrets

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“God initiates the salvation of man to express the Father's love, not a punitive deflecting of the Father's anger.”
― Garry Wills, Why Priests?

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