Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Reagan's America Reagan's America 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… OL15212260W
Verdi's Shakespeare Verdi's Shakespeare 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… OL15951845W
Chesterton Chesterton 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, … OL16008069W
What the Gospels meant What the Gospels meant 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, … OL17662484W
Head and heart Head and heart 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… OL17924898W
Why priests? Why priests? 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… OL18166912W
Why I am a Catholic Why I am a Catholic 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. OL32125W
Bomb power Bomb power 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 … OL34728268W