Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an author and historian, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. In 1993, he won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, which describes the background and effect of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location in Fulton and DeKalb counties in the state of Georgia Coordinates: , Country State Counties Fulton, DeKalb Government  - Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area  - City  132. ... Authorship redirects here. ... A historian is an individual who studies history and who writes on history. ... The New York Review of Books (or NYRB) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation). ... The only known photo of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg (seated, center), taken about noon, just after Lincoln arrived and some three hours before he spoke. ... is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

Wills is an adjunct professor of history, both American and cultural, at Northwestern University. He graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1951 and received his PhD in classics from Yale in 1961. In 1995 Wills received a L.H.D. from Bates College. He received an honorary doctorate from the College of the Holy Cross. The title page to The Historians History of the World. ... Northwestern University (officially abbreviated NU; sometimes abbreviated NWU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university with campuses located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois. ... Campion Jesuit High School was a Jesuit-run boarding school for boys in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, named for the Jesuit martyr Edmund Campion. ... Prairie du Chien is the county seat of Crawford County, Wisconsin. ... Official language(s) None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Area  Ranked 23rd  - Total 65,498 sq mi (169,790 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 310 miles (500 km)  - % water 17  - Latitude 42° 30′ N to 47° 05′ N  - Longitude 86° 46′ W to 92° 53′ W Population  Ranked... YALE (Yet Another Learning Environment) is an environment for machine learning experiments and data mining. ... Bates College is a private liberal arts college, founded in 1855 by abolitionists, located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ... Not to be confused with Holy Cross College (Indiana) or other similarly named Holy Cross Colleges. ...

In 1998, he won the National Medal for the Humanities. He has also won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an American association of approximately seven hundred book reviewers. ...

His book Nixon Agonistes landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. A master list of Nixon political opponents was compiled to supplement the original Nixons Enemies List of 20 key people considered opponents of President Richard Nixon. ...

John Leonard said in The New York Times that Wills "reads like a combination of H. L. Mencken, John Locke and Albert Camus."[1] John Leonard (born February 25, 1939) is an American literary, TV, film and cultural critic. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... i still feel like being nice H.L. Mencken who: journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, what: most influential American writers of the early 20th century. ... This article is about John Locke, the English philosopher. ... Albert Camus (IPA: ) (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher. ...

Books

• Chesterton: Man and Mask (1961), ISBN 0-385-50290-7
• Animals of the Bible (1962)
• Politics and Catholic Freedom (1964)
• Roman Culture: Weapons and the Man (1966), ISBN 0-8076-0367-8
• The Second Civil War: Arming for Armageddon (1968)
• Jack Ruby (1968), ISBN 0-306-80564-2
• Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-made Man (1970, 1979), ISBN 0-451-61750-9
• Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion (1972), ISBN 0-385-08970-8
• Values Americans Live By (1973), ISBN 0-405-04166-7
• Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (1978), ISBN 0-385-08976-7
• Confessions of a Conservative (1979), ISBN 0-385-08977-5
• At Button's (1979), ISBN 0-8362-6108-9
• Explaining America: The Federalist (1981), ISBN 0-385-14689-2
• The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power (1982), ISBN 0-316-94385-1
• Lead Time: A Journalist's Education (1983), ISBN 0-385-17695-3
• Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment (1984), ISBN 0-385-17562-0
• Reagan's America: Innocents at Home (1987), ISBN 0-385-18286-4
• Under God: Religion and American Politics (1990), ISBN 0-671-65705-4
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (1992), ISBN 0-671-76956-1
• Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders (1994), ISBN 0-671-65702-X
• Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth (1995), ISBN 0-19-508879-4
• John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity (1997), ISBN 0-684-80823-4
• Saint Augustine (1999), ISBN 0-670-88610-6
• A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government (1999), ISBN 0-684-84489-3
• Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (2000), ISBN 0-385-49410-6
• Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire (2001), ISBN 0-684-87190-4
• Why I Am a Catholic (2002), ISBN 0-618-13429-8
• Mr. Jefferson's University (2002), ISBN 0-7922-6531-9
• James Madison (2002), ISBN 0-8050-6905-4
• Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power (2003), ISBN 0-618-34398-9
• Henry Adams and the Making of America (2005), ISBN 0-618-13430-1
• The Rosary: Prayer Comes Round (2005), ISBN 0-670-03449-5
• What Jesus Meant (2006), ISBN 0-670-03496-7
• What Paul Meant (2006), ISBN 0-670-03793-1

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External links

• Northwestern bio
• NYRB pieces
• Thoughts on Nixon Agonistes
• History Faculty of NW university
• BookTV In Depth interview with Wills
• Wills will appear at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral for a live conversation with Dean Alan Jones on October 14, 2007. Also webcast and archived

Critiques