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Reagan's America
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Garry Wills |
"In Reagan's America, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Garry Wills seeks to understand Reagan's appeal through understanding his audience, the Americans who found in him everything they wa… |
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Verdi's Shakespeare
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Garry Wills |
This book is a dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare -- and a spellbinding account of their creation. In Verdi's Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Ga… |
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Chesterton
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Garry Wills |
"Part of a literary circle that included H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Hillaire Belloc, and Max Beerbohm, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote essays of social criticism for contemporary journals, … |
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What the Gospels meant
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Garry Wills |
Examines the goals, methods, and styles of the evangelists and how these shaped the gospels' messages. The earliest book, Mark, emphasizes Jesus the sufferer; in Matthew, Jesus the teacher; in Luke, … |
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Head and heart
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Garry Wills |
The struggle within American Christianity now-as it has been throughout our nation's history-is between the head and the heart, reason and emotion, Enlightenment and Evangelism. The same patterns rec… |
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Why priests?
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Garry Wills |
In his most provocative book yet, Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills asks the radical question: Why do we need priests? Author Wills spent five years as a young man at a Jesuit seminary and nearly bec… |
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Why I am a Catholic
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Garry Wills |
A selective history of the papacy (not much about the Borgias) sandwiched between a remembrance of a Jesuit education and an analysis of the Apostles' creed. |
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Bomb power
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Garry Wills |
From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills comes this groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy, and why we have been in a state of … |
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