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    Lead Time: A Journalist’s Education

    Garry Wills (Northwestern University)

    The essential Garry Wills, Lead Time offers a provocative view of a pivotal era in America from one of our most esteemed historians. In this collection of essays, written between…

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    Chesterton

    Garry Wills

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg and Papal Sin captures the many dimensions of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers.

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    Why I am a Catholic: Author of Papal Sin

    Garry Wills

    In this provocative work that could not be more timely, Wills, one of the country’s most noted writers and historians, offers a powerful statement of his own Catholic faith.

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    Why Priests?: A Failed Tradition

    Garry Wills

    Originally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 2013.

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    Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare’s Time

    Garry Wills

    A penetrating study of the images, symbols, pageants, and creative performances ambitious Elizabethans used to secure political power

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    Confessions

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    With complete and authoritative notes by the translator, this intensely personal narrative tells of St. Augustine’s rise from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power…

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    Head and Heart: A History of Christianity in America

    Garry Wills

    Wills brings a lifetimes worth of thought into his landmark examination of Christianity’s place in American life, and highlights the struggle that has long existed between reason and emotion.

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    Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion

    Garry Wills

    Originally published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., in 1972.

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    Mr Jefferson’s University

    Garry Wills

    In Charlottesville, Virginia, at the University of Virginia, there is today an expression of the Enlightenment, a philosophy concretized in brick and timber. This is the story of Jefferson’s last…

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    Mr.Jefferson’s University

    Garry Wills

    In Charlottesville, Virginia, at the University of Virginia, there is today an expression of the Enlightenment, a philosophy concretized in brick and timber. This is the story of Jefferson’s last…

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    John Wayne’s America

    Garry Wills

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, his wit, and his on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn portrait of John Wayne…

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    Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

    Garry Wills

    Bestselling author Wills presents a blistering critique of excessive executive power and official secrecy, drawing a direct line from the Manhattan Project to the usurpations of George W. Bush.

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    Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership

    Garry Wills

    An examination of the nature of leadership that uses a wide range of portraits from history representing revolutionary, political, religious, business, artistic, sport and military leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt…

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    Saint Augustine: A Life

    Garry Wills

    With the keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker, whose grounding in classical…

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    What Jesus Meant

    Garry Wills

    As the religious rhetoric of the culture wars escalates, New York Times bestselling author and eminent scholar Wills explores the meaning of Jesus’ teachings.

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    What the Gospels Meant

    Garry Wills

    New York Times -bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Wills interprets the four Gospels, brilliantly examining the goals, methods, and styles of the evangelists and discussing how these shaped their…

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    Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence

    Garry Wills

    A celebrated re-appraisal of the meaning and the source of inspiration of The Declaration of Independence, based on a reading of Jefferson s original draft document.

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    Nixon Agonistes

    Garry Wills

    From one of America’s most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the president’s opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixon was…

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    Augustine’s Confessions: A Biography

    Garry Wills

    An introduction to Confessions , one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. It tells the story of the Confessions - what motivated Augustine to dictate…

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    Augustine’s Confessions: A Biography

    Garry Wills

    An introduction to Confessions , one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. It tells the story of the Confessions - what motivated Augustine to dictate…

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    The Future Of The Catholic Church With Pope Francis

    Garry Wills

    The Church has been through many moments of seismic change, sometimes (but not always) championed by a visionary pope. The last great upheaval took place half a century ago, when…

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    Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer

    Garry Wills

    With his dazzling style and journalist’s eye for detail, Wills brings history to life, whether it’s the Civil Rights Movement; the protests against the Vietnam War; the presidential campaigns of…

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    Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

    Garry Wills

    Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that a Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Focusing his attention on Julius Caesar, the…

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    Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater

    Garry Wills

    Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi’s three triumphant Shakespearian operas: Macbeth, Othello, and Falstaff. Wills delves into the fast-paced worlds of…

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    What Paul Meant

    Garry Wills

    A brilliant synthesis of the Apostle Pauls thought and influence is written by a foremost Catholic intellectual ( Chicago Tribune ).

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    What The Qur'an Meant: And why it matters

    Garry Wills

    America’s leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur'an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient text.

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    Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power

    Garry Wills (Northwestern University)

    Moving beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson’s own slaves and his relationship with Sally Hemings, Wills instead probes the heart of Jefferson’s presidency and political life, revealing how the…

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    The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power

    Garry Wills (Northwestern University)

    From one of America’s foremost historians, The Kennedy Imprisonment is the definitive historical and psychological analysis of the Kennedy clan. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills reveals a…

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    Henry Adams and the Making of America

    Garry Wills (Northwestern University)

    Bestselling author Wills showcases Henry Adams little-known but seminal studyof the early United States, and draws from it fresh insights on the paradoxesthat roil America to this day.

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    Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism

    Garry Wills (Northwestern University)

    In Font of Life, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills recounts a vital chapter in the history of the Church--the baptism of Augustine by Ambrose--while unveiling a rarely visited but critical…

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    Martial’S Epigrams: A Selection

    Martial

    One of literature’s greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of his time, and set a pattern that satirists have imitated across the ages. This…

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    Nation and World, Church and God: The Legacy of Garry Wills

    Nation and World, Church and God gathers original critical reflections by leading writers and scholars on Garry Wills’s life work. Organized around the themes of Classics, Civil War, War and…

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    Throwing Thunderbolts: A Wargamer’s Guide to the War of the First Coalition, 1792-7

    Garry David Wills

    Throwing Thunderbolts is a unique guide to wargaming the battles, both large and small, of the War of the First Coalition, 1792-7, when the combined might of Europe’s great powers…

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    Wellington at Bay: The Battle of Villamuriel, 25 October 1812

    Garry David Wills

    A detailed account of the Battle of Villamuriel, the largest action during Wellington’s retreat from Burgos in 1812, based on extensive use of international archives.

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    James Madison

    Garry Wills,Arthur M. Schlesinger

    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…

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    Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare’s Macbeth

    Garry Wills (Professor of History, Professor of History, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)

    Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the vivid intrigue and drama of Jacobean England, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg restores Macbeth’s suspenseful tension by returning it to…

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    Chapman’s Homer: The  Odyssey

    Homer

    Presents the text of Chapman’s translation of the Odyssey (1614-15), making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. This book…

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    Chapman’s Homer: The  Iliad

    Homer

    George Chapman’s translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. This volume presents the original (1611) text of Chapman’s translation of the Iliad , making only a…

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    Under God: Religion and American Politics

    Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Historian Garry Wills (Northwestern University)

    One of our most distinguished political commentators–author of Reagan’s America–offers a rich, original look at why religion and politics will never be separate in the United States.

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    A Spark of Revolution: William Small, Thomas Jefferson and James Watt: the Curious Connection Between the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution

    Martin Clagett

    The story of William Small’s life is exceptional in that it is as much a quest as it is a biography. Although Small had profound influences on Thomas Jefferson as…

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    A Spark of Revolution: William Small, Thomas Jefferson and James Watt: the Curious Connection Between the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution

    Martin Clagett

    The story of William Small’s life is exceptional in that it is as much a quest as it is a biography. Although Small had profound influences on Thomas Jefferson as…

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    The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture

    The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture is one of the most prestigious honors awarded in the discipline of architecture and its related fields. This volume catalogues the first forty…

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    Curse of Crowns Blood You Will Taste: Blood You Will Taste

    Garris L R Coleman

    In Curse of Crowns Blood You Will Taste is the second novel based on the unfolding of The War On All Shores Series, set in the fictional worlds of Vargha…

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    Augustine’s Confessions

    Combines psychological insight into Augustine’s formative years along with reflections on some important issues in philosophy and theology. This volume contains essays that explore Augustinian themes not only with an…

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