Garry Wills
Autor/a de Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Sobre l'autor
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
Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism (Emblems of Antiquity) (2012) 78 exemplars
Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series) (1600) 60 exemplars
Lyric Opera: 50 Years of Grand Opera in Chicago 2 exemplars
CERTAIN TRUMPETS : Signed Easton Press 2 exemplars
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America by Garry Wills (1992-06-15) (1800) 1 exemplars
Nixon Agonistes (Mentor Series) Upd Exp edition by Wills, Garry (1971) Mass Market Paperback 1 exemplars
Roman Culture, Weapons and Man 1 exemplars
What the Gospels meant 1 exemplars
Sappho 31 and Catullus 51 1 exemplars
Martial's Epigrams 1 exemplars
Niet de meest conventionele kandidaat Abraham Lincoln en Barack Obama over ras in Amerika (2009) 1 exemplars
Lincoln's Greatest Speech? [periodical article] 1 exemplars
The Theodore H. White Lecture 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Col·laborador — 429 exemplars
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Col·laborador — 217 exemplars
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Col·laborador — 153 exemplars
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Col·laborador — 90 exemplars
Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century (1970) — Col·laborador — 83 exemplars
What Is Conservatism?: A New Edition of the Classic by 12 Leading Conservatives (1964) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
Augustine's Confessions (Critical Essays on the Classics Series) (2006) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
The William and Mary Quarterly, July 1987: Constitution of the United States — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- WILLS, Garry
- Data de naixement
- 1934-05-22
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Baltimore, Maryland, USA - Educació
- Yale University (PhD|Classics|1961)
Xavier University (MA|1958)
St. Louis University (BA|1957) - Professions
- historian
public intellectual
university professor - Relacions
- Buckley, William F., Jr. (employer)
- Organitzacions
- Northwestern University
Johns Hopkins University
Roman Catholic Church
National Review - Premis i honors
- National Humanities Medal (1998)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1995)
Pulitzer Prize (1993)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 64
- També de
- 18
- Membres
- 11,666
- Popularitat
- #2,020
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 149
- ISBN
- 256
- Llengües
- 6
- Preferit
- 23