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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American author, political philosopher and historian (born 1934)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the American jazz musician, see <a href="/wiki/Gary_Willis" title="Gary Willis">Gary Willis</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Garry Wills</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Garry_Wills_13724-119.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wills at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in 2015"><img alt="Wills at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in 2015" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Garry_Wills_13724-119.jpg/220px-Garry_Wills_13724-119.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Garry_Wills_13724-119.jpg/330px-Garry_Wills_13724-119.jpg 1.5x, 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class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Louis_University" title="Saint Louis University">Saint Louis University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Xavier_University" title="Xavier University">Xavier University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">MA</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</a>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Period</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1961–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/American_politics" class="mw-redirect" title="American politics">American politics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Political_history" title="Political history">political history</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><i>Nixon Agonistes</i> (1970)</li><li><i>Inventing America</i> (1978)</li><li><i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_at_Gettysburg" title="Lincoln at Gettysburg">Lincoln at Gettysburg</a></i> (1993)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Nonfiction" title="Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction">Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction</a> (1993)</li><li><a href="/wiki/National_Humanities_Medal" title="National Humanities Medal">National Medal for the Humanities</a> (1998)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Natalie Cavallo</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1959; died 2019)<wbr /></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Garry Wills</b> (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, political philosopher, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Catholic_Church" title="History of the Catholic Church">history of the Catholic Church</a>. He won a <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Nonfiction" title="Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction">Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction</a> in 1993. </p><p>Wills has written over fifty books and, since 1973, has been a frequent reviewer for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Review_of_Books" title="The New York Review of Books">The New York Review of Books</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He became a faculty member of the history department at <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_University" title="Northwestern University">Northwestern University</a> in 1980, where he is an <a href="/wiki/Emeritus_Professor" class="mw-redirect" title="Emeritus Professor">Emeritus Professor</a> of History. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_years">Early years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Garry_Wills&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wills was born on May 22, 1934, in <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-loa_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loa-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father, Jack Wills, was from a <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> background, and his mother was from an <a href="/wiki/Irish_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Catholic">Irish Catholic</a> family.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was reared as <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> and grew up in Michigan and Wisconsin, graduating in 1951 from <a href="/wiki/Campion_High_School" title="Campion High School">Campion High School</a>, a Jesuit institution in <a href="/wiki/Prairie_du_Chien,_Wisconsin" title="Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin">Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin</a>. He entered and then left the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Jesus">Society of Jesus</a>. </p><p>Wills earned a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> degree from <a href="/wiki/Saint_Louis_University" title="Saint Louis University">Saint Louis University</a> in 1957 and a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">Master of Arts</a> degree from <a href="/wiki/Xavier_University" title="Xavier University">Xavier University</a> in 1958, both in philosophy. <a href="/wiki/William_F._Buckley_Jr." title="William F. Buckley Jr.">William F. Buckley Jr.</a> hired him as a drama critic for <i><a href="/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a></i> magazine at the age of 23. He received a <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">Doctor of Philosophy</a> degree in <a href="/wiki/Classics" title="Classics">classics</a> from <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> in 1961.<sup id="cite_ref-nm4h1998_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nm4h1998-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He taught history at <a href="/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_University" title="Johns Hopkins University">Johns Hopkins University</a> from 1962 to 1980, and is a fellow at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Garry_Wills&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wills was married for sixty years (1959–2019) to Natalie Cavallo, a collaborator and photographer for his work. They have three children: John, Garry, and Lydia.<sup id="cite_ref-nm4h1998_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nm4h1998-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A trained <a href="/wiki/Classicist" class="mw-redirect" title="Classicist">classicist</a>, Wills is proficient in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>. His home in <a href="/wiki/Evanston,_Illinois" title="Evanston, Illinois">Evanston, Illinois</a>, was "filled with books", with a converted bedroom dedicated to English literature, another containing <a href="/wiki/Latin_literature" title="Latin literature">Latin literature</a> and books on American political thought, one hallway full of books on economics and religion, "including four shelves on <a href="/wiki/St._Augustine" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Augustine">St. Augustine</a>", and another with shelves of <a href="/wiki/Greek_literature" title="Greek literature">Greek literature</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greek_philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek philosophy">philosophy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nm4h1998_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nm4h1998-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After his wife's death in 2019 and the sale of their house, he donated most of his library to Loyola University Chicago, but retained what he termed "the core".<sup id="cite_ref-Borrelli_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Borrelli-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religion">Religion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Garry_Wills&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wills was a Catholic and, with the exception of a period of doubt during his <a href="/wiki/Seminary" title="Seminary">seminary</a> years, had been one all his life.<sup id="cite_ref-catholic_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-catholic-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He continued to attend <a href="/wiki/Mass_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Mass in the Catholic Church">Mass</a> at the Sheil Catholic Center at <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_University" title="Northwestern University">Northwestern University</a>. He prayed the <a href="/wiki/Rosary" title="Rosary">Rosary</a> every day, and wrote a book about the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_devotion" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic devotion">devotion</a> (<i>The Rosary: Prayer Comes Around</i>) in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-Allen_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allen-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a May 2024 interview with the <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i>, Wills revealed that he no longer considers himself a Catholic nor takes communion. Instead he refers to himself as an "Augustinian Christian." Wills attributes this change to the influence of his late wife, Natalie, who died in 2019 after 60 years of marriage and deeply influenced his thinking on everything from the day that he met her on an airplane two years before they married. Wills is pursuing the idea of writing a book on leaving Catholicism.<sup id="cite_ref-Borrelli_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Borrelli-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wills has also been a critic of many aspects of <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Catholic_Church" title="History of the Catholic Church">Church history</a> and <a href="/wiki/Catholic_social_teaching" title="Catholic social teaching">Church teaching</a> since at least the early 1960s. He has been particularly critical of the doctrine of <a href="/wiki/Papal_infallibility" title="Papal infallibility">papal infallibility</a>; the social teachings of the church regarding homosexuality, abortion, contraception, and the <a href="/wiki/Eucharist_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Eucharist in the Catholic Church">Eucharist</a>; and of the church's reaction to the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic sex abuse cases">sex abuse scandal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1961, in a phone conversation with <a href="/wiki/William_F._Buckley_Jr." title="William F. Buckley Jr.">William F. Buckley Jr.</a>, Wills coined the famous <a href="/wiki/Macaronic_language" title="Macaronic language">macaronic</a> phrase <i><a href="/wiki/Mater_si,_magistra_no" title="Mater si, magistra no">Mater si, magistra no</a></i> (literally "mother yes, teacher no").<sup id="cite_ref-catholic_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-catholic-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The phrase, which was a response to the <a href="/wiki/Papal_encyclical" class="mw-redirect" title="Papal encyclical">papal encyclical</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Mater_et_magistra" title="Mater et magistra">Mater et magistra</a></i> and a reference to the then-current <a href="/wiki/Anti-Castro" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Castro">anti-Castro</a> slogan "Cuba sí, Castro no", signifies a devotion to the faith and tradition of the church, combined with a skeptical attitude towards ecclesiastical–<a href="/wiki/Magisterium" title="Magisterium">Church authority</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Allen_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allen-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wills published a full-length analysis of the contemporary Catholic Church, <i>Bare Ruined Choirs</i>, in 1972 and a full-scale criticism of the historical and contemporary church, <i>Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit</i>, in 2000. He followed up the latter with a sequel, <i>Why I Am a Catholic</i> (2002), as well as with the books <i>What Jesus Meant</i> (2006), <i>What Paul Meant</i> (2006), and <i>What the Gospels Meant</i> (2008). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Garry_Wills&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wills began his career as an early protégé of William F. Buckley Jr. and was associated with <a href="/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism">conservatism</a>. When he first became involved with <i><a href="/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a></i> he did not know if he was a conservative, calling himself a <a href="/wiki/Distributism" title="Distributism">distributist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later on, he was self-admittedly conservative, being regarded for a time as the "token conservative" for the <i><a href="/wiki/National_Catholic_Reporter" title="National Catholic Reporter">National Catholic Reporter</a></i>. In 1979, after having supported more liberal positions for 20 years, he wrote a book titled <i>Confessions of a Conservative</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Allen_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allen-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in which he described his break from <a href="/wiki/William_F._Buckley" class="mw-redirect" title="William F. Buckley">William F. Buckley</a> and the American conservative movement, while continuing to remain in some ways ethically and culturally conservative. </p><p>However, during the 1960s and 1970s, driven by his coverage of both <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Vietnam_War_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Vietnam War movement">anti-Vietnam War movements</a>, Wills became increasingly liberal. His biography of president <a href="/wiki/Richard_M._Nixon" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard M. Nixon">Richard M. Nixon</a>, <i>Nixon Agonistes</i> (1970) landed him on the <a href="/wiki/Master_list_of_Nixon_political_opponents" class="mw-redirect" title="Master list of Nixon political opponents">master list of Nixon political opponents</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He supported <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="2008 United States presidential election">2008 presidential election</a>, but declared two years later that Obama's presidency had been a "terrible disappointment".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1995, Wills wrote an article about the <a href="/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Second Amendment to the United States Constitution">Second Amendment</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Review_of_Books" title="The New York Review of Books">The New York Review of Books</a></i>. It was originally titled "Why We Have No Right to Bear Arms", but that was not Wills's conclusion. He neither wrote the title nor approved it prior to the article's publication.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Instead, Wills argued that the Second Amendment refers to the <a href="/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms" title="Right to keep and bear arms">right to keep and bear arms</a> in a military context only, rather than justifying private ownership and use of guns. Furthermore, he said the military context did not entail the right of individuals to overthrow the government of the United States: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The Standard Model finds, squirrelled away in the Second Amendment, not only a private right to own guns for any purpose but a public right to oppose with arms the government of the United States. It grounds this claim in the right of <a href="/wiki/Insurrection" class="mw-redirect" title="Insurrection">insurrection</a>, which clearly does exist whenever tyranny exists. Yet the right to <i>overthrow</i> the government is not given by government. It arises when government no longer has any <a href="/wiki/Legitimacy_(political)" title="Legitimacy (political)">authority</a>. One cannot say one rebels by right of that nonexistent authority. Modern militias say the government itself instructs them to overthrow government—and wacky scholars endorse this view. They think the Constitution is so deranged a document that it brands as the greatest crime a war upon itself (in <a href="/wiki/Article_III_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Article III of the Constitution of the United States">Article III</a>: '<a href="/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States" title="Treason laws in the United States">Treason against the United States</a> shall consist only in levying war against them . . .') and then instructs its citizens to take this up (in the Second Amendment). According to this doctrine, a <a href="/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Meaning_of_"well_regulated_militia"" title="Second Amendment to the United States Constitution">well-regulated group</a> is meant to overthrow its own regulator, and a soldier swearing to obey orders is disqualified from true militia virtue.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Garry Wills, 1995<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_appraisal">Public appraisal</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Garry_Wills&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Public appraisal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> literary critic <a href="/wiki/John_Leonard_(critic)" title="John Leonard (critic)">John Leonard</a> said in 1970 that Wills "reads like a combination of <a href="/wiki/H._L._Mencken" title="H. L. Mencken">H. L. Mencken</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Locke" title="John Locke">John Locke</a> and <a href="/wiki/Albert_Camus" title="Albert Camus">Albert Camus</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Catholic journalist <a href="/wiki/John_L._Allen_Jr." title="John L. Allen Jr.">John L. Allen Jr.</a> considers Wills to be "perhaps the most distinguished Catholic intellectual in America over the last 50 years" (as of 2008<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garry_Wills&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>).<sup id="cite_ref-Allen_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allen-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Martin_Gardner" title="Martin Gardner">Martin Gardner</a> in "The Strange Case of Garry Wills" states there is a "mystery and strangeness that hovers like a gray fog over everything Wills has written about his faith".<sup id="cite_ref-Gardner_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gardner-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honors">Honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Garry_Wills&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1978: <i>Inventing America</i>—<a href="/wiki/National_Book_Critics_Circle" title="National Book Critics Circle">National Book Critics Circle</a> Award for General Nonfiction (co-winner, with <i>Facts of Life</i> by <a href="/wiki/Maureen_Howard" title="Maureen Howard">Maureen Howard</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1979: <i>Inventing America</i>—<a href="/wiki/Merle_Curti_Award" title="Merle Curti Award">Merle Curti Award</a></li> <li>1982: Honorary degree of <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Humane_Letters" title="Doctor of Humane Letters">L.H.D.</a> by the <a href="/wiki/College_of_the_Holy_Cross" title="College of the Holy Cross">College of the Holy Cross</a></li> <li>1992: <i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_at_Gettysburg" title="Lincoln at Gettysburg">Lincoln at Gettysburg</a></i>—<a href="/wiki/National_Book_Critics_Circle" title="National Book Critics Circle">National Book Critics Circle</a> Award for Criticism</li> <li>1993: <i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_at_Gettysburg" title="Lincoln at Gettysburg">Lincoln at Gettysburg</a></i>—<a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Nonfiction" title="Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction">Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction</a><sup id="cite_ref-Pulitzer_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pulitzer-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1995: Honorary degree from <a href="/wiki/Bates_College" title="Bates College">Bates College</a></li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/National_Humanities_Medal" title="National Humanities Medal">National Medal for the Humanities</a><sup id="cite_ref-nm4h1998_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nm4h1998-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2001: The Lincoln Forum's <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nelson_Current" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Nelson Current">Richard Nelson Current</a> Award of Achievement<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2003: Inducted to the <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2004: <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Literary_Award" title="St. Louis Literary Award">St. Louis Literary Award</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Louis_University" title="Saint Louis University">Saint Louis University</a> Library Associates<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Inducted as a Laureate of <a href="/wiki/The_Lincoln_Academy_of_Illinois" title="The Lincoln Academy of Illinois">The Lincoln Academy of Illinois</a> and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2006 in the area of Communication and Education.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Garry_Wills&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Garry_Wills_bibliography" title="Garry Wills bibliography">Garry Wills bibliography</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><i>Chesterton: Man and Mask</i>, <a href="/wiki/Doubleday_(publisher)" title="Doubleday (publisher)">Doubleday</a>, 1961. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free 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(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-50290-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-385-50290-0">978-0-385-50290-0</a></li> <li><i>Animals of the Bible</i> (1962)</li> <li><i>Politics and Catholic Freedom</i> (1964)</li> <li><i>Roman Culture: Weapons and the Man</i> (1966), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8076-0367-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-8076-0367-8">0-8076-0367-8</a></li> <li><i>The Second Civil War: Arming for Armageddon</i> (1968)</li> <li><i>Jack Ruby</i> (1968), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-306-80564-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-306-80564-2">0-306-80564-2</a></li> <li><i>Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-made Man</i> (1970, 1979), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-451-61750-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-451-61750-9">0-451-61750-9</a></li> <li><i>Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion</i> (1972), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-08970-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-08970-8">0-385-08970-8</a></li> <li><i>Values Americans Live By</i> (1973), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-405-04166-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-405-04166-7">0-405-04166-7</a></li> <li><i>Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence</i> (1978), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-08976-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-08976-7">0-385-08976-7</a></li> <li><i>Confessions of a Conservative</i> (1979), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-08977-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-08977-5">0-385-08977-5</a></li> <li><i>At Button's</i> (1979), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8362-6108-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-8362-6108-9">0-8362-6108-9</a></li> <li><i>Explaining America: The Federalist</i> (1981), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-14689-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-14689-2">0-385-14689-2</a></li> <li><i>The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power</i> (1982), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-316-94385-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-316-94385-1">0-316-94385-1</a></li> <li><i>Lead Time: A Journalist's Education</i> (1983), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-17695-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-17695-3">0-385-17695-3</a></li> <li><i>Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment</i> (1984), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-17562-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-17562-0">0-385-17562-0</a></li> <li><i>Reagan's America: Innocents at Home</i> (1987), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-18286-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-18286-4">0-385-18286-4</a></li> <li><i>Under God: Religion and American Politics</i> (1990), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-65705-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-65705-4">0-671-65705-4</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_at_Gettysburg:_The_Words_That_Remade_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America">Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America</a></i> (1992), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-76956-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-76956-1">0-671-76956-1</a></li> <li><i>Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders</i> (1994), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-65702-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-65702-X">0-671-65702-X</a></li> <li><i>Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth</i> (1995), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-508879-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-508879-4">0-19-508879-4</a></li> <li><i>John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity</i> (1997), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-80823-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-80823-4">0-684-80823-4</a></li> <li><i>Saint Augustine</i> (1999), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-88610-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-88610-6">0-670-88610-6</a></li> <li><i>Saint Augustine's Childhood</i> (2001), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-03001-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-03001-5">0-670-03001-5</a></li> <li><i>Saint Augustine's Memory</i> (2002), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-03127-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-03127-5">0-670-03127-5</a></li> <li><i>Saint Augustine's Sin</i> (2003), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-03241-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-03241-7">0-670-03241-7</a></li> <li><i>Saint Augustine's Conversion</i> (2004), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-03352-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-03352-9">0-670-03352-9</a></li> <li><i>A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government</i> (1999), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-84489-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-84489-3">0-684-84489-3</a></li> <li><i>Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit</i> (2000), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-49410-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-49410-6">0-385-49410-6</a></li> <li><i>Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire</i> (2001), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-87190-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-87190-4">0-684-87190-4</a></li> <li><i>Why I Am a Catholic</i> (2002), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-618-13429-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-618-13429-8">0-618-13429-8</a></li> <li><i>Mr. Jefferson's University</i> (2002), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7922-6531-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-7922-6531-9">0-7922-6531-9</a></li> <li><i>James Madison</i> (2002), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8050-6905-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-8050-6905-4">0-8050-6905-4</a></li> <li><i>Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power</i> (2003), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-618-34398-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-618-34398-9">0-618-34398-9</a></li> <li><i>Henry Adams and the Making of America</i> (2005), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-618-13430-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-618-13430-1">0-618-13430-1</a></li> <li><i>The Rosary: Prayer Comes Round</i> (2005), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-03449-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-03449-5">0-670-03449-5</a></li> <li><i>What Jesus Meant</i> (2006), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-03496-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-03496-7">0-670-03496-7</a></li> <li><i>What Paul Meant</i> (2006), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-03793-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-03793-1">0-670-03793-1</a></li> <li><i>Bush's Fringe Government</i> (2006), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1590172100" title="Special:BookSources/978-1590172100">978-1590172100</a></li> <li><i>Head and Heart: American Christianities</i> (2007), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59420-146-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-59420-146-2">978-1-59420-146-2</a></li> <li><i>What the Gospels Meant</i> (2008), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-01871-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-01871-6">0-670-01871-6</a></li> <li><i>Bomb Power</i> (2010), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59420-240-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-59420-240-7">978-1-59420-240-7</a></li> <li><i>Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer</i> (2010), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-02214-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-670-02214-4">978-0-670-02214-4</a></li> <li><i>Augustine's 'Confessions': A Biography</i> (2011), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0691143576" title="Special:BookSources/978-0691143576">978-0691143576</a></li> <li><i>Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of the Theater</i> (2011), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0670023042" title="Special:BookSources/978-0670023042">978-0670023042</a></li> <li><i>Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar</i> (2011), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0300152180" title="Special:BookSources/978-0300152180">978-0300152180</a></li> <li><i>Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism</i> (2012), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0199768516" title="Special:BookSources/978-0199768516">978-0199768516</a></li> <li><i>Why Priests?</i> (2013), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0670024872" title="Special:BookSources/978-0670024872">978-0670024872</a></li> <li><i>Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time</i> (2014) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-19753-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-300-19753-2">978-0-300-19753-2</a></li> <li><i>The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis</i> (March 2015), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0525426967" title="Special:BookSources/978-0525426967">978-0525426967</a></li> <li><i>What The Qur'an Meant and Why It Matters</i> (2017), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-101-98102-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-101-98102-3">978-1-101-98102-3</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Garry_Wills&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nybooks.com/authors/85">Author's page for Garry Wills</a> at the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Review_of_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Review of Books">New York Review of Books</a> website</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-loa-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-loa_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Library of America.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://reportingcivilrights.loa.org/authors/bio.jsp?authorId=157">Biography of Garry Wills</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090605010422/http://reportingcivilrights.loa.org/authors/bio.jsp?authorId=157">Archived</a> June 5, 2009, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMiles" class="citation web cs1">Miles, Jack. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://events.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/books/chapters/0714-1st-wills.html">"The Loyal Opposition"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Loyal+Opposition&rft.aulast=Miles&rft.aufirst=Jack&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fevents.nytimes.com%2F2002%2F07%2F14%2Fbooks%2Fchapters%2F0714-1st-wills.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged February 2022">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nm4h1998-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nm4h1998_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nm4h1998_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nm4h1998_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nm4h1998_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222947/http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/1998-11/medalists.html">"Winners of the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities"</a>. <i>Deconstructing Performance: Garry Wills's Eye on History</i>. <a href="/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Humanities" title="National Endowment for the Humanities">National Endowment for the Humanities</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/1998-11/medalists.html">the original</a> on March 3, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 26,</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Deconstructing+Performance%3A+Garry+Wills%27s+Eye+on+History&rft.atitle=Winners+of+the+1998+National+Medal+for+the+Humanities&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.neh.gov%2Fnews%2Fhumanities%2F1998-11%2Fmedalists.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amacad.org/person/garry-wills">"Garry Wills"</a>. January 23, 2024.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Garry+Wills&rft.date=2024-01-23&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amacad.org%2Fperson%2Fgarry-wills&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWitt1982" class="citation news cs1">Witt, Linda (April 5, 1982). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064207/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20081845,00.html">"Garry Wills Dismantles Camelot and Finds Some Prisoners Within – Jack, Bob and Ted Kennedy"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/People_(magazine)" title="People (magazine)">People</a></i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20081845,00.html">the original</a> on March 4, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 22,</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=People&rft.atitle=Garry+Wills+Dismantles+Camelot+and+Finds+Some+Prisoners+Within+%E2%80%93+Jack%2C+Bob+and+Ted+Kennedy&rft.date=1982-04-05&rft.aulast=Witt&rft.aufirst=Linda&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.people.com%2Fpeople%2Farchive%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2C20081845%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHoover2010" class="citation news cs1">Hoover, Bob (February 21, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10052/1036942-148.stm">"Non-fiction: "Bomb Power," by Garry Wills"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Post-Gazette" title="Pittsburgh Post-Gazette">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Pittsburgh+Post-Gazette&rft.atitle=Non-fiction%3A+%22Bomb+Power%2C%22+by+Garry+Wills&rft.date=2010-02-21&rft.aulast=Hoover&rft.aufirst=Bob&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.post-gazette.com%2Fpg%2F10052%2F1036942-148.stm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Borrelli-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Borrelli_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Borrelli_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBorrelli2024" class="citation news cs1">Borrelli, Christopher (May 30, 2024). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/30/garry-wills-at-90-the-influential-historian-has-become-his-own-iconoclast">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"Garry Wills at 90:The influential historian has become his own iconoclast"<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Chicago+Tribune&rft.atitle=%22Garry+Wills+at+90%3AThe+influential+historian+has+become+his+own+iconoclast%22&rft.date=2024-05-30&rft.aulast=Borrelli&rft.aufirst=Christopher&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagotribune.com%2F2024%2F05%2F30%2Fgarry-wills-at-90-the-influential-historian-has-become-his-own-iconoclast&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-catholic-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-catholic_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-catholic_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGarry_Wills2003" class="citation book cs1">Garry Wills (2003). <i>Why I Am a Catholic</i>. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-618-38048-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-618-38048-5"><bdi>0-618-38048-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Why+I+Am+a+Catholic&rft.pub=Houghton+Mifflin+Harcourt&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-618-38048-5&rft.au=Garry+Wills&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Allen-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Allen_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Allen_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Allen_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Allen_10-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAllen2008" class="citation news cs1">Allen, John L Jr. (November 21, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ncronline.org/news/people/poped-out-wills-seeks-broader-horizons">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Poped out' Wills seeks broader horizons"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/National_Catholic_Reporter" title="National Catholic Reporter">National Catholic Reporter</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=National+Catholic+Reporter&rft.atitle=%27Poped+out%27+Wills+seeks+broader+horizons&rft.date=2008-11-21&rft.aulast=Allen&rft.aufirst=John+L+Jr.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fncronline.org%2Fnews%2Fpeople%2Fpoped-out-wills-seeks-broader-horizons&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGarry_Wills2000" class="citation book cs1">Garry Wills (2000). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/papalsin00garr"><i>Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit</i></a></span>. Doubleday. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780385494113" title="Special:BookSources/9780385494113"><bdi>9780385494113</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Papal+Sin%3A+Structures+of+Deceit&rft.pub=Doubleday&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=9780385494113&rft.au=Garry+Wills&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fpapalsin00garr&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWills2007" class="citation news cs1">Wills, Garry (November 4, 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-op-wills4nov04,0,2121538.story">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Abortion isn't a religious issue'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=%27Abortion+isn%27t+a+religious+issue%27&rft.date=2007-11-04&rft.aulast=Wills&rft.aufirst=Garry&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Ffeatures%2Freligion%2Fla-op-wills4nov04%2C0%2C2121538.story&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWills2012" class="citation magazine cs1">Wills, Garry (February 15, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/feb/15/contraception-con-men/">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Contraception's Con Men'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Review_of_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Review of Books">New York Review of Books</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Review+of+Books&rft.atitle=%27Contraception%27s+Con+Men%27&rft.date=2012-02-15&rft.aulast=Wills&rft.aufirst=Garry&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nybooks.com%2Fblogs%2Fnyrblog%2F2012%2Ffeb%2F15%2Fcontraception-con-men%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWills2002" class="citation magazine cs1">Wills, Garry (August 15, 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2002/aug/15/the-bishops-at-bay/">"The Bishops at Bay"</a>. <i>New York Review of Books</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Review+of+Books&rft.atitle=The+Bishops+at+Bay&rft.date=2002-08-15&rft.aulast=Wills&rft.aufirst=Garry&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nybooks.com%2Farticles%2Farchives%2F2002%2Faug%2F15%2Fthe-bishops-at-bay%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJohn_B._Judis1990" class="citation book cs1">John B. Judis (1990). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/williamfbuckleyj00john/page/158"><i>William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives</i></a>. Simon & Schuster. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/williamfbuckleyj00john/page/158">158</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-69593-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-69593-2"><bdi>0-671-69593-2</bdi></a>. <q>Wills ... did not know whether he was a conservative (he called himself a 'distributionist')</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=William+F.+Buckley%2C+Jr.%3A+Patron+Saint+of+the+Conservatives&rft.pages=158&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=0-671-69593-2&rft.au=John+B.+Judis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fwilliamfbuckleyj00john%2Fpage%2F158&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.enemieslist.info/enemy.php?ID=wills&submit=Search">"Nixon's Enemies List Search Results"</a>. <i>www.enemieslist.info</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.enemieslist.info&rft.atitle=Nixon%27s+Enemies+List+Search+Results&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.enemieslist.info%2Fenemy.php%3FID%3Dwills%26submit%3DSearch&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKurutz2010" class="citation news cs1">Kurutz, Steven (October 20, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/10/20/garry-wills-on-bill-buckley-obamas-failures-and-the-tea-party-circus/">"Garry Wills on Obama 'Disappointment' and the Tea Party 'Zoo'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Wall+Street+Journal&rft.atitle=Garry+Wills+on+Obama+%27Disappointment%27+and+the+Tea+Party+%27Zoo%27&rft.date=2010-10-20&rft.aulast=Kurutz&rft.aufirst=Steven&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.wsj.com%2Fspeakeasy%2F2010%2F10%2F20%2Fgarry-wills-on-bill-buckley-obamas-failures-and-the-tea-party-circus%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1995/nov/16/to-keep-and-bear-arms-an-exchange/">"To Keep and Bear Arms: An Exchange"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Review_of_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Review of Books">New York Review of Books</a></i>. November 16, 1995. <q>I had no knowledge of the misleading cover title "Why We Have No Right to Bear Arms" before I read with dismay the printed issue. Of course the Amendment states a right that "we" do possess—but we possess it, as the Amendment itself says, in a "<a href="/wiki/A_well_regulated_Militia" class="mw-redirect" title="A well regulated Militia">well-regulated militia</a>."<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Review+of+Books&rft.atitle=To+Keep+and+Bear+Arms%3A+An+Exchange&rft.date=1995-11-16&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nybooks.com%2Farticles%2Farchives%2F1995%2Fnov%2F16%2Fto-keep-and-bear-arms-an-exchange%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWills1995" class="citation magazine cs1">Wills, Garry (September 21, 1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1995/sep/21/to-keep-and-bear-arms/?page=1">"To Keep and Bear Arms"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Review_of_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Review of Books">New York Review of Books</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Review+of+Books&rft.atitle=To+Keep+and+Bear+Arms&rft.date=1995-09-21&rft.aulast=Wills&rft.aufirst=Garry&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nybooks.com%2Farticles%2Farchives%2F1995%2Fsep%2F21%2Fto-keep-and-bear-arms%2F%3Fpage%3D1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeonard1970" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Leonard_(critic)" title="John Leonard (critic)">Leonard, John</a> (October 15, 1970). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/01/reviews/wills-nixon.html">"Books of the Times: Mr. Nixon as the Last Liberal"</a>. <i>Review of Nixon Agonistes</i>. The New York Times.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Review+of+Nixon+Agonistes&rft.atitle=Books+of+the+Times%3A+Mr.+Nixon+as+the+Last+Liberal&rft.date=1970-10-15&rft.aulast=Leonard&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fbooks%2F97%2F06%2F01%2Freviews%2Fwills-nixon.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGarry+Wills" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Gardner-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Gardner_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGardner2003" class="citation book cs1">Gardner, Martin (2003). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/areuniversesthic0000gard"><i>Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?</i></a></span>. 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href="http://bookforum.com/inprint/016_05/5000">Rick Perlstein talks to Garry Wills about "The Bomb"</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Delbanco" title="Andrew Delbanco">Delbanco, Andrew</a>, "The Right-Wing Christians", <i>New York Review of Books</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=21196">Review of Wills's <i>Head and Heart: American Christianities</i></a>.</li> <li><i>New York Times</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/25/specials/wills.html">"Featured Author" page</a>.</li> <li><i>New York Times</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/garry_wills/index.html">Index of articles about Garry Wills</a>, (covers 1983 to 2008).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northwestern_University" title="Northwestern University">Northwestern University</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.history.northwestern.edu/people/wills.html">History Faculty of NW university</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091219041016/http://www.history.northwestern.edu/people/wills.html">Archived</a> December 19, 2009, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091216171251/http://www.gracecathedral.org/forum/for_20071015.shtml">Wills at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral</a>, a live conversation with Dean Alan Jones (archived)</li> <li>Wills, Garry, October 13, 2007, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071029001022/http://fora.tv/2007/10/15/Garry_Wills_Head_and_Heart">Lecture</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup> at <a href="/wiki/Politics_and_Prose" title="Politics and Prose">Politics and Prose</a> bookstore in 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style="width:1%">1962–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Making_of_the_President_1960" title="The Making of the President 1960">The Making of the President 1960</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Theodore_H._White" title="Theodore H. White">Theodore White</a> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Guns_of_August" title="The Guns of August">The Guns of August</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Barbara_W._Tuchman" title="Barbara W. Tuchman">Barbara W. Tuchman</a> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Anti-intellectualism_in_American_Life" title="Anti-intellectualism in American Life">Anti-intellectualism in American Life</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter" title="Richard Hofstadter">Richard Hofstadter</a> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/O_Strange_New_World" title="O Strange New World">O Strange New World</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Mumford_Jones" title="Howard Mumford Jones">Howard Mumford Jones</a> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wandering_Through_Winter" title="Wandering Through Winter">Wandering Through Winter</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Way_Teale" title="Edwin Way Teale">Edwin Way Teale</a> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Problem_of_Slavery_in_Western_Culture" title="The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture">The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Brion_Davis" title="David Brion Davis">David Brion Davis</a> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rousseau_and_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Rousseau and Revolution">Rousseau and Revolution</a></i>, vol. 10 of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization" title="The Story of Civilization">The Story of Civilization</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Will_Durant" title="Will Durant">Will</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ariel_Durant" title="Ariel Durant">Ariel Durant</a> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/So_Human_an_Animal" title="So Human an Animal">So Human an Animal</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Dubos" title="René Dubos">René Dubos</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/The_Armies_of_the_Night" title="The Armies of the Night">The Armies of the Night</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Norman_Mailer" title="Norman Mailer">Norman Mailer</a> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gandhi%27s_Truth" title="Gandhi's Truth">Gandhi's Truth</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Erik_Erikson" title="Erik Erikson">Erik Erikson</a> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rising_Sun" title="The Rising Sun">The Rising Sun</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Toland_(historian)" title="John Toland (historian)">John Toland</a> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stilwell_and_the_American_Experience_in_China,_1911%E2%80%9345" title="Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45">Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Barbara_W._Tuchman" title="Barbara W. Tuchman">Barbara W. Tuchman</a> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fire_in_the_Lake" title="Fire in the Lake">Fire in the Lake</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Frances_FitzGerald_(journalist)" title="Frances FitzGerald (journalist)">Frances FitzGerald</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Children_of_Crisis" title="Children of Crisis">Children of Crisis</a></i> vols. 2 and 3 by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Coles_(psychiatrist)" title="Robert Coles (psychiatrist)">Robert Coles</a> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death" title="The Denial of Death">The Denial of Death</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Becker" title="Ernest Becker">Ernest Becker</a> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pilgrim_at_Tinker_Creek" title="Pilgrim at Tinker Creek">Pilgrim at Tinker Creek</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Annie_Dillard" title="Annie Dillard">Annie Dillard</a> (1975)</li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="3" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png/60px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png/90px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png/120px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png 2x" data-file-width="1114" data-file-height="1110" /></a></span><br /><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png/60px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="59" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png/90px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png/120px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png 2x" data-file-width="1115" data-file-height="1101" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Why_Survive%3F_Being_Old_in_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Why Survive? Being Old in America">Why Survive?</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_N._Butler" title="Robert N. Butler">Robert N. Butler</a> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Beautiful_Swimmers" title="Beautiful Swimmers">Beautiful Swimmers</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_W._Warner" title="William W. Warner">William W. Warner</a> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dragons_of_Eden" title="The Dragons of Eden">The Dragons of Eden</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Sagan" title="Carl Sagan">Carl Sagan</a> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/On_Human_Nature" title="On Human Nature">On Human Nature</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/E._O._Wilson" title="E. O. Wilson">E. O. Wilson</a> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach" title="Gödel, Escher, Bach">Gödel, Escher, Bach</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter" title="Douglas Hofstadter">Douglas Hofstadter</a> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fin-de-si%C3%A8cle_Vienna" title="Fin-de-siècle Vienna">Fin-de-siècle Vienna</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Emil_Schorske" title="Carl Emil Schorske">Carl Emil Schorske</a> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine" title="The Soul of a New Machine">The Soul of a New Machine</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Tracy_Kidder" title="Tracy Kidder">Tracy Kidder</a> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Is_There_No_Place_on_Earth_for_Me%3F" title="Is There No Place on Earth for Me?">Is There No Place on Earth for Me?</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Susan_Sheehan" title="Susan Sheehan">Susan Sheehan</a> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Social_Transformation_of_American_Medicine" title="The Social Transformation of American Medicine">The Social Transformation of American Medicine</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Starr" title="Paul Starr">Paul Starr</a> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Good_War" title="The Good War">The Good War</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Studs_Terkel" title="Studs Terkel">Studs Terkel</a> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Common_Ground_(Lukas_book)" title="Common Ground (Lukas book)">Common Ground</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._Anthony_Lukas" title="J. Anthony Lukas">J. Anthony Lukas</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Move_Your_Shadow" title="Move Your Shadow">Move Your Shadow</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Lelyveld" title="Joseph Lelyveld">Joseph Lelyveld</a> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arab_and_Jew:_Wounded_Spirits_in_a_Promised_Land" title="Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land">Arab and Jew</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_K._Shipler" title="David K. Shipler">David K. Shipler</a> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb" title="The Making of the Atomic Bomb">The Making of the Atomic Bomb</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Rhodes" title="Richard Rhodes">Richard Rhodes</a> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Bright_Shining_Lie" title="A Bright Shining Lie">A Bright Shining Lie</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Sheehan" title="Neil Sheehan">Neil Sheehan</a> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/And_Their_Children_After_Them_(Maharidge_and_Williamson_book)" title="And Their Children After Them (Maharidge and Williamson book)">And Their Children After Them</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Dale_Maharidge" title="Dale Maharidge">Dale Maharidge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Williamson_(photographer)" title="Michael Williamson (photographer)">Michael Williamson</a> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ants" title="The Ants">The Ants</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Bert_H%C3%B6lldobler" title="Bert Hölldobler">Bert Hölldobler</a> and <a href="/wiki/E._O._Wilson" title="E. O. Wilson">E. O. Wilson</a> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Prize:_The_Epic_Quest_for_Oil,_Money,_and_Power" title="The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power">The Prize</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Yergin" title="Daniel Yergin">Daniel Yergin</a> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_at_Gettysburg" title="Lincoln at Gettysburg">Lincoln at Gettysburg</a></i> by <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Garry Wills</a> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lenin%27s_Tomb:_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire" title="Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire">Lenin's Tomb</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Remnick" title="David Remnick">David Remnick</a> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Beak_of_the_Finch" title="The Beak of the Finch">The Beak of the Finch</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Weiner" title="Jonathan Weiner">Jonathan Weiner</a> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Haunted_Land" title="The Haunted Land">The Haunted Land</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Tina_Rosenberg" title="Tina Rosenberg">Tina Rosenberg</a> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ashes_to_Ashes_(Kluger_book)" title="Ashes to Ashes (Kluger book)">Ashes to Ashes</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Kluger" title="Richard Kluger">Richard Kluger</a> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel" title="Guns, Germs, and Steel">Guns, Germs, and Steel</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jared_Diamond" title="Jared Diamond">Jared Diamond</a> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Annals_of_the_Former_World" title="Annals of the Former World">Annals of the Former World</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_McPhee" title="John McPhee">John McPhee</a> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Embracing_Defeat" title="Embracing Defeat">Embracing Defeat</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_W._Dower" title="John W. Dower">John W. Dower</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–2025</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hirohito_and_the_Making_of_Modern_Japan" title="Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan">Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Herbert_P._Bix" title="Herbert P. Bix">Herbert P. Bix</a> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Carry_Me_Home_(book)" title="Carry Me Home (book)">Carry Me Home</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Diane_McWhorter" title="Diane McWhorter">Diane McWhorter</a> (2002)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Problem_from_Hell" title="A Problem from Hell">"A Problem from Hell"</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Samantha_Power" title="Samantha Power">Samantha Power</a> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gulag:_A_History" title="Gulag: A History">Gulag: A History</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Applebaum" title="Anne Applebaum">Anne Applebaum</a> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ghost_Wars" title="Ghost Wars">Ghost Wars</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Steve_Coll" title="Steve Coll">Steve Coll</a> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Reckoning" title="Imperial Reckoning">Imperial Reckoning</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Elkins" title="Caroline Elkins">Caroline Elkins</a> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Looming_Tower" title="The Looming Tower">The Looming Tower</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Wright" title="Lawrence Wright">Lawrence Wright</a> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Years_of_Extermination" title="The Years of Extermination">The Years of Extermination</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Saul_Friedl%C3%A4nder" title="Saul Friedländer">Saul Friedländer</a> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Slavery_by_Another_Name" title="Slavery by Another Name">Slavery by Another Name</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Douglas_A._Blackmon" title="Douglas A. Blackmon">Douglas A. Blackmon</a> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dead_Hand" title="The Dead Hand">The Dead Hand</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_E._Hoffman" title="David E. Hoffman">David E. Hoffman</a> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Emperor_of_All_Maladies" title="The Emperor of All Maladies">The Emperor of All Maladies</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Siddhartha_Mukherjee" title="Siddhartha Mukherjee">Siddhartha Mukherjee</a> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Swerve" title="The Swerve">The Swerve</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Greenblatt" title="Stephen Greenblatt">Stephen Greenblatt</a> (2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Devil_in_the_Grove" title="Devil in the Grove">Devil in the Grove</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_King_(author)" title="Gilbert King (author)">Gilbert King</a> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Toms_River_(book)" title="Toms River (book)">Toms River</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Dan_Fagin" title="Dan Fagin">Dan Fagin</a> (2014)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sixth_Extinction:_An_Unnatural_History" title="The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History">The Sixth Extinction</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Kolbert" title="Elizabeth Kolbert">Elizabeth Kolbert</a> (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Flags:_The_Rise_of_ISIS" title="Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS">Black Flags</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Joby_Warrick" title="Joby Warrick">Joby Warrick</a> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Evicted:_Poverty_and_Profit_in_the_American_City" title="Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City">Evicted</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Desmond" title="Matthew Desmond">Matthew Desmond</a> (2017)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Locking_Up_Our_Own" title="Locking Up Our Own">Locking Up Our Own</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/James_Forman_Jr." title="James Forman Jr.">James Forman Jr.</a> (2018)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amity_and_Prosperity:_One_Family_and_the_Fracturing_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America">Amity and Prosperity</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Eliza_Griswold" title="Eliza Griswold">Eliza Griswold</a> (2019)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_End_of_the_Myth" title="The End of the Myth">The End of the Myth</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Greg_Grandin" title="Greg Grandin">Greg Grandin</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/The_Undying_(book)" title="The Undying (book)">The Undying</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Boyer" title="Anne Boyer">Anne Boyer</a> (2020)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wilmington%27s_Lie" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilmington's Lie">Wilmington's Lie</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Zucchino" title="David Zucchino">David Zucchino</a> (2021)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Invisible_Child:_Poverty,_Survival_%26_Hope_in_an_American_City" title="Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City">Invisible Child</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Andrea_Elliott" title="Andrea Elliott">Andrea Elliott</a> (2022)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/His_Name_Is_George_Floyd" title="His Name Is George Floyd">His Name Is George Floyd</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Samuels_(journalist)" title="Robert Samuels (journalist)">Robert Samuels</a> and <a href="/wiki/Toluse_Olorunnipa" 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