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Garry Wills

Garry WillsBorn: 22-May-1934
Birthplace: Atlanta, GA

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Lincoln at Gettysburg

    High School: Campion High School, Prairie du Chien, WI (1951)
    University: PhD Classics, Yale University (1961)
    Professor: History, Johns Hopkins University (1962-80)
    University: LHD, Bates College (1995)
    Professor: Northwestern University

    Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction 1993 for Lincoln at Gettysburg
    National Review

Author of books:
Roman Culture: Weapons and the Man (1966)
Jack Ruby (1968)
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1970)
Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion (1972)
Values Americans Live By (1974)
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (1978)
Confessions of a Conservative (1979)
At Button's (1979)
Explaining America: The Federalist (1981)
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power (1982)
Lead Time: A Journalist's Education (1983)
Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment (1984)
Reagan's America: Innocents at Home (1987)
Under God: Religion and American Politics (1990)
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (1992)
Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders (1994)
Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth (1995)
John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity (1997)
St. Augustine's Sin (1999)
A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government (1999)
Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (2000)
Why I Am a Catholic (2002)
Mr. Jefferson's University (2002)
What Jesus Meant (2006)


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