Garry Wills

Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often "very amusing" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising conclusions about a man whose name has become synonymous with scandal and the abuse of power (Kirkus Reviews)....

In a fresh reading of the gospels, Garry Wills explores the meaning of the "reign of heaven" that Jesus not only promised for the future but brought with him into this life....

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

There is perhaps no more compelling example of the power of words than Lincoln's Gettysburg Address...

Throughout history, Christians have debated Paul's influence in the church. Though revered, Paul has also been controversial....

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....

Bookish and retiring, Garry Wills has been an outsider in the academy, in journalism, even in his church. Yet these qualities have prompted people to share intimate insights with him....

New York Times best-selling historian Garry Wills takes on a pressing question in modern religion - will Pope Francis embrace change....

In Bomb Power, Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest constitutional roots....

New York Times Best Seller: A “remarkable and evenhanded study of Ronald Reagan” (The New York Times) from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 document....

New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills, a two-time National Book Critics Circle Award winner, takes a bold and fresh look at Thomas Jefferson....

Bestselling 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....

Here is a landmark examination of Christianity's place in American life across the broad sweep of this country's history....

For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With a keen eye, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker....