Whose side is Jesus really on? Whose views do his teachings support? Should we aspire to be 'Christlike'--meaning homeless, subversive, scandalous, in constant danger of being kidnapped or arrested, and keeping company with the less-t...
New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills interprets the four Gospels.
Arguing that Jesus subscribed to no political program in spite of the claims of politicians who cite Christ as an ethical teacher who endorses their views, the author of Papal Sin draws on the gospel to explain Jesus's radical views a...
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that...
Garry WillsThe power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead he gave the whole nation 'a new birth of freedom' in the space of a...
Head and Heart: American Christianiti...
Garry WillsA 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.
Arguing that Jesus subscribed to no political program in spite of the claims of politicians who cite Christ as an ethical teacher who endorses their views, the author of Papal Sin draws on the gospel to explain Jesus's radical views a...
Why Priests?: A Failed Tradition
Garry WillsBestselling author of Papal Sin and Why I Am a Catholic, Garry Wills spent five years as a young man at a Jesuit seminary and nearly became a priest himself. But after a lifetime of study and reflection, he now poses some challenging ...
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and...
Garry WillsA groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy. In Bomb Power, bestselling author Garry Wills presents a blistering critique of excessive executive power and official secrecy, ...
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and...
Garry WillsFrom Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Garry Wills comes this groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy and why we have been in a state of war alert ever since.
Head and Heart: American Christianiti...
Garry WillsA 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.
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declar...
Garry WillsFrom acclaimed historian Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg, 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 documen...
Saint Augustine (Lives Biographies)
Garry WillsFor centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills examines this famed fourth century bishop and semina...