Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: christianities, american, heart, head
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-10-04
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1594201463
ISBN-13: 9781594201462

A landmark examination of Christianity’s place in American life across the broad sweep of this country’s history, from the Puritans to the presidential administration of George W. Bush. The struggle within American Christianity, Garry Wills argues, now and throughout our country’s history, is between the head and the heart: between reason and emotion, Enlightenment and Evangelism. Why has this been so? How has the tension between the two poles played out, and with what consequences, over the past 400 years? How "Christian" is America, after all? Garry Wills brings a lifeti

Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: america, making, adams, henry
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2005-09-14
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0618134301
ISBN-13: 9780618134304

One of our greatest historians offers a surprising new view of the greatest historian of the nineteenth century, Henry Adams.Wills showcases Henry Adams’s little-known but seminal study of the early United States and elicits from it fresh insights on the paradoxes that roil America to this day. Adams drew on his own southern fixation, his extensive foreign travel, his political service in Lincoln’s White House, and much more to invent the study of history as we know it. His nine-volume chronicle of America from 1800 to 1816 established new standards for employing archival sources,

Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: meant, paul
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-09-25
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0143112635
ISBN-13: 9780143112631

In his New York Times bestseller What Jesus Meant, Garry Wills offered a fresh and incisive reading of Jesus’ teachings. Now Wills turns to Paul, whose writings have provoked controversy throughout Christian history. Upending many common assumptions, Wills argues eloquently that what Paul meant was not something contrary to what Jesus meant. Rather, the best way to know Jesus is to discover Paul. In this stimulating and masterly analysis, Wills illuminates how Paul, writing on the road and in the heat of the moment, and often in the midst of controversy, galvanized a movement and offers

Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: power, meditation, imprisonment, kennedy
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-11-14
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0618134433
ISBN-13: 9780618134434

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 family that enjoyed public adulation but provided fluctuating leadership, that experienced both unparalleled fame and odd failures, and whose basic values ensnared its men in their own myths of success and masculinity. In the end, Wills reveals that the the Kennedys’ crippling conception of power touched every part of their public and private lives, including their relationships with wo

Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: meant, gospels
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-01-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 014311512X
ISBN-13: 9780143115120

New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize- winner Garry Wills interprets the four Gospels Garry Wills’s recent New York Times bestselling books What Jesus Meant and What Paul Meant were tour-de-force interpretations on Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Now Wills turns his remarkable gift for biblical analysis to the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Wills examines the goals, methods, and styles of the evangelists and how these shaped the gospels’ messages. Hailed as "one of the most intellectually interesting and doctrinally heterodox Christians writing today"(The

Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: catholic
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-10-08
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0618380485
ISBN-13: 9780618380480

In this provocative work, which could not be timelier, Garry Wills, one of our country’s most noted writers and historians, offers a powerful statement of his Catholic faith. Beginning with a reflection on his early experience of that faith as a child and later as a Jesuit seminarian, Wills reveals the importance of Catholicism in his own life. He goes on to challenge, in clear and forceful terms, the claim that criticism or reform of the papacy is an assault on the faith itself. For Wills, a Catholic can be both loyal and critical, a loving child who stays with his father even if the pa

Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: home, innocents, america, reagan
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0140296077
ISBN-13: 9780140296075

Ronald Reagan achieved magical accord with the American people, attuning them to his moral vision of a nation made up of optimistic individualists, tough yet God--fearing, blessed with a special destiny. In Reagan’s America, Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian Garry Wills seeks to understand Reagan’s appeal through understanding his audience, the Americans who found in him everything they wanted to believe about themselves.An authoritative biography and a fascinating cultural history, Reagan’s America reveals how this savvy, charismatic leader restored a nation’