Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is a celebrated 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 impact of Abraham Lincoln's November 19, 1863 Gettysburg Address. May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... A historian is a person who studies 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. ... Listen to this article (help) Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-13, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... 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. ...

Wills is an adjunct professor of history, both American and cultural, at Northwestern University. He received his PhD in classics from Yale in 1961 and graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1951. History studies the past in human terms. ... Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian university, located in Evanston, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois. ... Campion 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. ... State nickname: Badger State Official languages None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Governor Jim Doyle (D) Senators Herb Kohl (D) Russ Feingold (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 23rd 169,790 km² 17 Population  - Total (2000)  - Density Ranked 18th 5,453,896 38. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

Books

• Roman culture: weapons and the man (1966)
• The Second Civil War
• Jack Ruby (1968)
• Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1970)
• Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion (1972)
• Values Americans Live By (1974)
• Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (1978)
• Confessions of a Conservative (1979)
• At Button's (1979)
• Explaining America: The Federalist (1981)
• The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power (1982)
• Lead Time: A Journalist's Education (1983)
• Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment (1984)
• Reagan's America: Innocents at Home (1987)
• Under God: Religion and American Politics (1990)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (1992)
• Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders (1994)
• Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth (1995)
• John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity (1997)
• St. Augustine's Sin (1999)
• A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government (1999)
• Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (2000)
• Why I Am a Catholic (2002)
• Mr. Jefferson's University (2002)
• James Madison
• Chesterton

Critiques of Wills

• Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (2000)
  • Papal Sin: Misrepresentation Corrected
  • "A New Syllabus of Errors" (Lawler, Justus George The Month,Feb. 2001)

Awards

• Pulitzer Prize
• National Medal for the Humanities in 1998
• National Book Critics Circle Award

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Quotes

• "Only the winners decide what were war crimes."

• "reads like a combination of H. L. Mencken, John Locke and Albert Camus." -- John Leonard, The New York Times [1]

John Leonard (born July 7, 1965) is an Australian poet. ...

External links

• Northwestern bio
• NYRB pieces
• Thoughts on Nixon Agonistes