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Garry Wills, 1934 - Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1934. Wills received a B.A. from St. Louis University in 1957, an M.A. from Xavier University of Cincinnati in 1958, an M.A. (1959) and a Ph.D. (1961) in classics from Yale. Wills was a junior fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies mostra'n més from 1961-62, an associate professor of classics and adjunct professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University from 1962-80. Wills was the first Washington Irving Professor of Modern American History and Literature at Union College, and was also a Regents Professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Silliman Seminarist at Yale, Christian Gauss Lecturer at Princeton, W.W. Cook Lecturer at the University of Michigan Law School, Hubert Humphrey Seminarist at Macalester College, Welch Professor of American Studies at Notre Dame University and Henry R. Luce Professor of American Culture and Public Policy at Northwestern University (1980-88). Wills is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his articles appear frequently in The New York Review of Books. Wills is the author of "Lincoln at Gettysburg," which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1993 and the NEH Presidential Medal, "John Wayne's America," "A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government" and "The Kennedy Imprisonment." Other awards received by Wills include the National Book Critics Award, the Merle Curti Award of the organization of American Historians, the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale Graduate School, the Harold Washington Book Award and the Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, which was for writing and narrating the 1988 "Frontline" documentary "The Candidates." (Bowker Author Biography) Garry Wills is a Pulitzer-prize winning historian and cultural critic. A former professor of Greek at Yale University, his many books include Lincoln at Gettysburg, Reagan's America, Witches and Jesuits, and a biography of Saint Augustine. He lives in Evanston, Indiana. (Publisher Provided) Garry Wills is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Evanston, Illinois. (Publisher Provided) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Garry Wills

What Jesus Meant (2006) 838 exemplars
Saint Augustine (1999) 822 exemplars
What Paul Meant (2006) 596 exemplars
Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (2000) 566 exemplars
James Madison (2002) 450 exemplars
Why I Am a Catholic (2002) 431 exemplars
What the Gospels Meant (2008) 336 exemplars
The Rosary (2005) 195 exemplars
Why Priests?: A Failed Tradition (2013) 138 exemplars
Chesterton (1961) 89 exemplars
Confessions of a Conservative (1979) 62 exemplars
Travelers' Tales GREECE : True Stories (2000) — Col·laborador — 31 exemplars
Bush's Fringe Government (2006) 20 exemplars
Jack Ruby (1994) 15 exemplars
Politics and Catholic freedom (1964) 13 exemplars
At Button's (1979) 8 exemplars
The Winning of the White House (1988) 2 exemplars
Martial's Epigrams 1 exemplars

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Ilíada (0750) — Preface, algunes edicions39,680 exemplars
The New Journalism (1973) — Col·laborador — 334 exemplars
Christian Science (1907) — Introducció, algunes edicions278 exemplars
The Best American Essays 2002 (2002) — Col·laborador — 220 exemplars
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Col·laborador — 217 exemplars
Saint Augustine's Childhood (2001) — Traductor, algunes edicions131 exemplars
The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI (1995) — Introducció, algunes edicions101 exemplars
Saint Augustine's Memory (2002) — Traductor — 100 exemplars
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Col·laborador — 90 exemplars
Saint Augustine's Sin (2003) — Traductor — 47 exemplars
Saint Augustine's Conversion (2004) — Traductor — 41 exemplars
A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition (2010) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
Augustine's Confessions (Critical Essays on the Classics Series) (2006) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars

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Obres
64
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18
Membres
11,666
Popularitat
#2,020
Valoració
4.0
Ressenyes
149
ISBN
256
Llengües
6
Preferit
23

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