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| 1. |  | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) from Simon & Schuster Price: $11.20 Customer Review:  What a gift to a reader this book is. It is an opportunity to witness a brilliant mind explore a profound one. |
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| 2. |  | What Jesus Meant from Viking Adult Price: $6.99 Customer Review:  I'm quite disappointed that there are people in this world who can openly dissent from church teaching yet write and act as though the Church is the one dissenting. Wills thinks of himself as God by interpreting the bible to his own likings and to fit his own beliefs. |
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| 3. |  | What Paul Meant from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $4.49 Customer Review:  Wills has written three books of interest: What Paul Meant, What Jesus Meant, and What the Gospels Meant. In What Paul Meant Wills puts forth the notion that Paul's writings (not the pseudo Paul) provide a clearer picture of Jesus than the Gospels because he was closer to the time of Jesus, knew and... |
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| 4. |  | Head and Heart: American Christianities from Penguin Press HC, The Price: $11.98 Customer Review: I look up to Garry Wills when it comes to understanding and practicing religion in the most sensible way possible in our time of extremism. He is so good at contextualizing religion, and he does it in a very factual and respectful way. This book is very dense and provides enormous amount of... |
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| 5. |  | What the Gospels Meant from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.20 Customer Review: This is the first book by Wills that I have read and it seems from other reviews that this might be better if it had followed some of his other books. Overall I found the book to have some interesting ideas and was very easy to read in format and flow. Wills takes each gospel one at a time,... |
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| 6. |  | James Madison: (The American Presidents Series) from Times Books Price: $14.96 Customer Review:  The author gives a review of Madison's service and Presidency but not a full biography. There is good information on how the political landscape changed during his Presidency and how Madison, the consummate politician navigated through it. The book is not very deep personally (like say an Ambrose... |
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| 7. |  | Why I Am a Catholic from Mariner Books Price: $11.20 Customer Review: I see that a number of people have reviewed this book and I cannot hope to add much. It's a difficult book to rate since there is part of it that I enjoy and find valuable and part that I simply didn't trust. The book starts as a biography of Garry Wills. I have not read anything else by him,... |
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| 8. |  | Saint Augustine: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.40 Customer Review: It's hard to love St. Augustine. Even as one of the most influential religious thinkers in the history of Christianity--the image of heaven as a holy city, the City of God, was his idea--and as the author of his Confessions, arguably the first confessional biography (and a model for many of the... |
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| 9. |  | Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership from Simon & Schuster Price: $15.20 Customer Review: Certain Trumpets is a great resource for individuals who want to take a fresh look at leadership types. As an introvert I've been puzzled for many years, wondering what kind of magic I exude that makes people want to follow me. Garry Wills affirms that there are many types of leaders, and likens... |
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| 10. |  | Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence from Mariner Books Price: $10.20 Customer Review: This book has had a place of honor on my bookshelf for many years. Wills excels at bringing a fresh perspective on historical issues, showing that old topics are still relevant to modern concerns. As usual in his books, he does not give the reader a really comprehensive or balanced discussion. But... |
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| 11. |  | Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit from Image Price: $11.53 Customer Review:  Gary Wills one of the biggest "anti-Catholic Catholics" outdoes himself in this book full of lies and utter trash. He spouts such anti Catholic garbage such as Catholics think the Mass is "magic", he mocks an elderly Priest who he used to serve at the Alter with by mocking the Priests reverence for... |
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| 12. |  | Under God: Religion and American Politics from Simon & Schuster Price: $10.88 | |
| 13. |  | Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man from Mariner Books Price: $13.50 Customer Review: The English poet and Cromwellian revolutionary John Milton had his Samson struggling against forces that he did not understand and that in the end he was unable to overcome. Professor Wills in his seminal contemporaneous study of the career through his successful run in 1968, up close and personal,... |
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| 14. |  | Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power from Houghton Mifflin Price: $25.00 Customer Review: Willis's book is interesting when he's relating history, but all too often he diverts from that to attack other historians views, or try to defend his against perceived attacks from others. That gets old after the first few times. |
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| 15. |  | Martial's Epigrams: A Selection from Viking Adult Price: $16.47 | |
| 16. |  | Henry Adams and the Making of America from Mariner Books Price: $11.96 Customer Review: Very good recap of Adam's classic multi-volume "History of the United States During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison." Wills de-revisionizes the historian's viewpoint of Adams that he was an apologist for the Presidents in his family and for New England, and anti-Republican and... |
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| 17. |  | A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government from Simon & Schuster Price: $12.00 Customer Review: This book is a perfect example why every citizen of the United States should fear the authoritarian left just as much as we should fear the authoritarian right. Mr. Wills displays such an astounding dismissal for the more than two centuries of study on the Constitution of the United States, its... |
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| 18. |  | Chapman's Homer from Princeton University Press Price: $26.95 Customer Review: Chapman was a poet-playwright caught in one of history's greatest creative explosions. Imagine: Chapman got to walk Homer onto the stage of Elizabethan literature. Used to rendering scenes, getting action and nuance across by hook and by crook, yet thrilled by his poet and his task, Chapman... |
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| 19. |  | The Confessions of Saint Augustine from Penguin Classics Price: $12.80 Customer Review: Garry Wills' translation of Saint Augustine's "Confessions" brings this work to life. Wills has rendered Augustine's Latin into beautifully flowing contemporary English. It is commendable that he was able to do this while preserving the personal character of this saint's life story and demonstrating... |
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| 20. |  | The Rosary from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $11.25 Customer Review: Gary Wills traces what he can verify of the history of the rosary as prayers beads and glosses over any spiritual inspiration in its origin. He analyzes most of the elements of the rosary including four of the prayers and the mysteries associated with it. He neglects to mention the Fatima Prayer.... |
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| 21. |  | Explaining America: The Federalist from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.88 Customer Review: Garry Wills' Explaining America - The Federalist (1982) presents civics as I never learned it in high school. Wills is probably better known for more recent books (e.g. Lincoln at Gettysburg), or his coverage of the 1988 Presidential campaign. There is substance here - a detailed consideration of... |
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| 22. | [no image] | Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment from Doubleday Customer Review: Very little in our high school or college histories prepares us for the Washington we encounter in these pages. The roles of revolutionary warrior and first president have been reprised often in other countries so we are now over-familiar with someone being called 'the George Washington of someplace... |
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| 23. |  | The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater from New Press Price: $8.74 | |
| 24. |  | Christian Science (1907) (Oxford Mark Twain) from Oxford University Press, USA Customer Review: I recommend all books by this author. I also love the fact that the publisher, 1stWorld Library (or 1stWolrd Publishing) has made the text slightly larger which is a blessing for my thirty-something eyes. Great job. I have dozens of books by this publisher. The Second Declaration |
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| 25. |  | Mr. Jefferson's University from National Geographic Price: $9.31 Customer Review: Garry Wills has a reputation as a worthy historian who has an ability to write in a very succinct and pithy style. This book maintains and promotes that reputation further. As a Virginia resident who has studied and read a great deal by Jefferson and about Jefferson, I have been aware of his... |
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| 26. |  | Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire from Washington Square Press Price: $16.00 Customer Review: Wills' intention is to "look at the history through the art, the art through the history." As a result, the book depends very much on its illustrations, and these are unfortunately miserably poor. When a work being discussed is reproduced at all, the reproduction is likely to be a dark smudge of ink... |
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| 27. |  | Scoundrel Time from Back Bay Books Price: $17.99 Customer Review: I was very pleased with the service I received in the shipping of Scoundrel Time from this vendor. |
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| 28. |  | John Waynes America from Simon & Schuster Price: $22.45 Customer Review: THIS IS THE WORST BOOK IVE READ IN YEARS. GARRY WILLS BABBLES ON AND ON AND ON. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY ON THIS P.O.S. IF THE DUKE WAS HERE HE WOULD PUNCH THIS GUY ON THE MOUTH! I DONT NORMALLY CARE TO WRITE A REVIEW BUT THIS GUY IS A CLOWN! HIS LONG WINDED RAMBLINGS SEEM TO COME FROM JEALOUSY... |
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| 29. |  | Bush's Fringe Government from New York Review Books Price: $7.95 Customer Review: I love Garry Wills, but this book - more of a long pamphlet-is not worth much. The book is comprised of two long essays. In the first, "Fringe Government", Wills describes similarities between the world views of George W. Bush and Pope Benedict XVI, both of whom prefer an authoritarian and... |
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| 30. |  | Reagan's America: Innocents at Home from Penguin (Non-Classics) Customer Review: I have read many books by Gary Wills, and this is one of his best. It is an astonishing work of history and cultural analysis, impressive in the breadth of his learning and the depth of his insight. Mr. Wills writes knowledgeably and skillfully about a wealth of topics: the America of Mark Twain ...... |
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