Garry Wills
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Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.
From the Review
May 1, 2008: Two Speeches on Race
January 17, 2008: Romney and JFK: The Difference
December 20, 2007: Dark Victories
The Roman Triumph by Mary Beard
December 20, 2007: The Gates of Paradise (letter)
November 8, 2007: The Loveliest Doors
The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece Catalog of the exhibition edited by Gary M. Radke, with essays by Andrew Butterfield and eleven other contributors.
July 19, 2007: An American Hero
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson
June 28, 2007: 'We Are All Romans Now' (letter)
May 31, 2007: We Are All Romans Now
Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome by Carlos A. Picón, Joan R. Mertens, Elizabeth J. Milleker, Christopher S. Lightfoot, and Seán Hemingway, with contributions from Richard De Puma
November 16, 2006: A Country Ruled by Faith
September 21, 2006: 'Manliness' (letter)
June 8, 2006: Mousiness
Manliness by Harvey C. Mansfield
April 6, 2006: An American Iliad
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–68 by Taylor Branch
February 9, 2006: Jimmy Carter & the Culture of Death
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter
December 15, 2005: Henry Adams's Theme (letter)
October 6, 2005: Fringe Government
March 10, 2005: The Wise Warrior
George Washington Remembers: Reflections on the French and Indian War edited by Fred Anderson
His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
December 16, 2004: 'Arguing about War' (letter)
November 18, 2004: What Is a Just War?
Arguing About War by Michael Walzer
November 4, 2004: The Election and America's Future
October 21, 2004: The CIA in Khartoum (letter)
August 12, 2004: The Tragedy of Bill Clinton
My Life by Bill Clinton
August 12, 2004: Tocqueville's Heart (letter)
June 24, 2004: Lessons of a Master
The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America by Edmund S. Morgan
April 29, 2004: Did Tocqueville 'Get' America?
April 29, 2004: The Legion of Christ (letter)
April 8, 2004: God in the Hands of Angry Sinners
The Passion of the Christ a film directed by Mel Gibson
Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II by Jason Berry and Gerald Renner
November 6, 2003: The Negro President
October 23, 2003: 'Living History' (letter)
October 9, 2003: Looking for the Lost Greeks
The Archaeology of Nostalgia: How the Greeks Re-created Their Mythical Past by John Boardman
The Parthenon by Mary Beard
October 9, 2003: 'Living History' (letter)
August 14, 2003: Lightning Rod
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
December 5, 2002: High Fidelity
The Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church by George Weigel
November 21, 2002: A Democratic Church? (letter)
November 21, 2002: Has the Pope Been a Failure? (letter)
September 26, 2002: Priests and Boys: An Exchange
August 15, 2002: The Bishops at Bay
Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church by the Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe
Conclave: The Politics, Personalities, and Process of the Next Papal Election by John L. Allen Jr.
June 13, 2002: Priests and Boys
Intimate Enemies: Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain by Philip Jenkins
Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet by Philip Jenkins
Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine, with a foreword by Dr. Joycelyn M. Elders
Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption into the Catholic Church by Michael S. Rose
Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis by Philip Jenkins
May 23, 2002: Scandal
The Changing Face of the Priesthood: A Reflection on the Priest's Crisis of Soul by Donald B. Cozzens
Don't Tell: The Sexual Abuse of Boys by Michel Dorais, translated by Isabel Denholm Meyer
The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality by Eugene Kennedy
April 25, 2002: American Jesuits (letter)
March 28, 2002: Jesuits in Disarray
Passionate Uncertainty: Inside the American Jesuits by Peter McDonough and Eugene C. Bianchi
June 21, 2001: The Dramaturgy of Death
April 26, 2001: A Tale of Two Cardinals
Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin edited by Alphonse P. Spilly, C.PP.S.
Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith John L. Allen Jr.
The Spirit of the Liturgy Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, translated from the German by John Saward
February 8, 2001: The Election Mess (letter)
November 16, 2000: Honorable Man
The Gentleman from New York: Daniel Patrick Moynihan by Godfrey Hodgson
August 10, 2000: Fatima: 'The Third Secret'
June 15, 2000: Camping in Washington
Delancey's Way by James McCourt
May 25, 2000: The Vatican Regrets
Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past for the Doctrine of the Faith, December 1999 by Rev. Christopher Begg, Msgr. Bruno Forte, Rev. Sebastian Karotemprel S.D.B., Msgr. Roland Minnerath, Rev. Thomas Norris, Rev. Rafael Salazar Cárdenas M.Sp.S., Msgr. Anton Strukelj. Issued from the Vatican by Cardinal Ratzinger of the Congregation. Available at www.vatican.va.
March 9, 2000: Storm Over Jefferson
February 10, 2000: Waiting for Bobby
In Love with Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy by Ronald Steel
August 12, 1999: The People's Choice
I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up by Jesse Ventura
Body Slam: The Jesse Ventura Story by Jake Tapper
Me, by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente, Governor of Minnesota as told to Garrison Keillor
July 15, 1999: A Reader's Guide to the Century
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
Modern Times, Modern Places by Peter Conrad
A History of the World in the Twentieth Century by J.A.S. Grenville
The Century by Peter Jennings, by Todd Brewster
The American Century by Harold Evans, with Gail Buckland, by Kevin Baker
The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century edited by Michael Howard, by William Roger Louis
The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century edited by Richard W. Bulliet
Why the American Century? by Olivier Zunz
The Twentieth Century: A World History by Clive Ponting
Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th Century edited by Lorraine Glennon
Chronicle of the 20th Century edited by Clifton Daniel, by John W. Kirshon, foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., by An updated edition will be published in November.
National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century by National Geographic Society
June 10, 1999: Athens on Fifth Avenue
May 6, 1999: Augustine's Magical Decade
March 4, 1999: Fire & Ice
Gabriele D'Annunzio: Defiant Archangel by John Woodhouse
Cabiria e il suo tempo edited by Paolo Bertetto, by Gianni Rondolino
Griffithiana: The Journal of Film History edited by Davide Turconi
February 4, 1999: The Great Black Hope
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick
More Than a Champion: The Style of Muhammad Ali by Jan Philipp Reemtsma, translated by John E. Woods
October 8, 1998: Bill & the Emperor
August 13, 1998: How Odd of God
Jews: The Essence and Character of a People by Arthur Hertzberg, by Aron Hirt-Manheimer
Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century by Samuel C. Heilman
The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century Schuster. by Alan M. Dershowitz
July 16, 1998: Slumming
Bulworth a film by and with Warren Beatty
June 25, 1998: Those Were the Days
The Children by David Halberstam
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, with Michael D'Orso
February 19, 1998: The Vatican Monarchy
Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith by William F. Buckley Jr.
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer
Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan
Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II by Jonathan Kwitny
Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes by Eamon Duffy
Lives of the Popes: The Pontiffs from Saint Peter to John Paul II by Richard P. McBrien
The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism by Michael W. Cuneo
January 15, 1998: A Language of Their Own
Interntional Silent Film Festival Pordenone, Italy
December 18, 1997: A Second Assassination
The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh
October 23, 1997: Terror in a Small Town
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas
September 25, 1997: The Front Page
The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick: 1880-1955 by Richard Norton Smith
March 6, 1997: American Adam
February 20, 1997: The Real Scandal
Behind the Oval Office: Winning the Presidency in the Nineties by Dick Morris
December 19, 1996: The Art & Politics of the Nativity
The Angel Tree: A Christmas Celebration (1993) by Linn Howard, by Mary Jane Pool
Scene e scenografie del presepe Napoletano (1991) by Gennaro Borrelli
Il presepio: Otto secoli di storia, arte, tradizione (1995) by Pietro Gargano
El belén: Historia, tradición y actualidad (1992) by Pablo Martínez-Palomero
Il presepe Napoletano del settecento (1995) by Teodoro Fittipaldi
Venite Adoremus: Note sul presepe Genovese (1993) catalog of the 1993-1994 exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Genoa.
Il presepe riscoperto: Un "unicum" Napoletano del seicento a Genova (1989) by Giuliana Biavati, by Giulio Sommariva
Il presepe Italiano (1993) by Pietro Gasperini
Il presepe Napoletano (1990) by Gennaro Borrelli
November 14, 1996: Hating Hillary
The Seduction of Hillary Rodham by David Brock
October 3, 1996: A Tale of Two Cities
September 19, 1996: A Tale of Three Leaders
An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America by Andrew Young
Prophet of Rage: A Life of Louis Farrakhan and His Nation by Arthur J. Magida
In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam by Mattias Gardell
Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson by Marshall Frady
July 11, 1996: The Would-Be Progressives
They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era by E.J. Dionne Jr.
In Defense of Government: The Fall and Rise of Public Trust by Jacob Weisberg
Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America by Michael Tomasky
Values Matter Most: How Republicans or Democrats or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life by Ben J. Wattenberg
The New Promise of American Life edited by Lamar Alexander, edited by Chester E. Finn Jr.
June 6, 1996: What Happened to the Revolution?
Showdown: The Struggle Between the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton White House by Elizabeth Drew
Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival by Dan Balz, by Ronald Brownstein
'Tell Newt to Shut Up' by David Maraniss, by Michael Weisskopf
Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics by Larry J. Sabate, by Glenn R. Simpson
The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point by Haynes Johnson, by David S. Broder
April 18, 1996: The Clinton Scandals
Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries by James B Stewart
Madhouse: The Private Turmoil of Working for the President by Jeffrey H Birnbaum
Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and Whitewater Development Company, Inc.: A Preliminary Report to the Resolution Trust Corporation
Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and Whitewater Development Company, Inc.: A Supplemental Report to the Resolution Trust Corporation Prepared by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP, San Francisco, California, with financial and economic analysis support from Tucker Alan Inc., Seattle, Washington
A Report on Certain Real Estate Loans and Investments Made by Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and Related Entities
A Report on the Rose Law Firm's Conduct of Accounting Malpractice Litigation Pertaining to Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Prepared for Resolution Trust Corporation by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP
A Supplemental Report on the Representation of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan by the Rose Law Firm Prepared for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP
November 16, 1995: To Keep and Bear Arms: An Exchange
September 21, 1995: To Keep and Bear Arms
Second Amendment Symposium Issue Tennessee Law Review, Spring 1995
A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees by Stephen P. Halbrook
To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right by Joyce Lee Malcolm
Guns, Crime, and Freedom by Wayne LaPierre, foreword by Tom Clancy
An Argument, Shewing, that a Standing Army Is inconsistent with A Free Government, and absolutely destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy by John Trenchard
August 10, 1995: The New Revolutionaries
The Turner Diaries by Andrew" (William L. Pierce) "Macdonald
Warriors Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America by James William Gibson
The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation by Dick J. Reavis
Guns, Crime, and Freedom by Wayne R. LaPierre, foreword by Tom Clancy
Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace by Leonard L. Lewin
The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism by James A. Aho
In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s by Michael S. Sherry
This Thing of Darkness: A Sociology of the Enemy by James A. Aho
Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America by James D. Tabor, by Eugene V. Gallagher
April 20, 1995: Hunt for the Last Judgment
March 23, 1995: The Visionary
February 2, 1995: Thomas's Confirmation: The True Story
The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning Up the Federal Appointments Process by Stephen L. Carter
Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality edited and with an introduction by Toni Morrison
Resurrection: The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas by John C. Danforth
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer, by Jill Abramson
December 22, 1994: The Tragic Pope?
Crossing the Threshold of Hope by His Holiness John Paul II, edited by Vittorio Messori, translated by Jenny McPhee, by Martha McPhee
Prayers and Devotions from Pope John Paul II introduction by edited and with an Bishop OSA van Lierde, Peter Canisius Johannes, translated by Firman O'Sullivan
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Place Within: The Poetry of Pope John Paul II translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz
The Papacy by Bernhard Schimmelpfennig, translated by James Sievert
September 22, 1994: Clinton's Troubles
Leading With My Heart by Virginia Kelley
The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House by Bob Woodward
All's Fair by Mary Matalin, by James Carville
Highwire: From the Backroads to the Beltway—The Education of Bill Clinton by John Brummett
August 11, 1994: The Real Thing
I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin January-April 1994; Art Institute of Chicago, April-July 1994; Cincinnati Art Museum, July 28-October 9, 1994; Baltimore Museum of Art, October 26-December 31, 1994; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 1-April 30, 1995 exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin catalog edited by Judith E. Stein
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series Birmingham Museum, July 10-September 4, 1994; St. Louis Art Museum, September 30-November 27, 1994; Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 12-April 11, 1995; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, April 25-June 25, 1995; Denver Art Museum, July 15-September 10, 1995; Chicago Historical Society, September 22-November 26, 1995 exhibition at the Phillips Collection, September 1993-January 1994;
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series catalog edited by Elizabeth Hutton Turner
Harriet and the Promised Land by Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993), A Catalogue Raisonné Washington catalog of the exhibition at Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle,, essay by Patricia Hills, edited by Peter Nesbett
A History of African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present by Romare Bearden, by Harry Henderson
The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872 by Joseph D. Ketner
July 14, 1994: Action Painting in Venice
Tintoretto: Tutte le opere Volumes 1 and 2: Le opere sacre e profane Volume 3: I ritratti by Rodolfo Pallucchini, by Paola Rossi
Vite dei Tintoretto by Carlo Ridolfi, edited by Antonio Manno
Tintoretto: La Scuola Grande di San Rocco by Giandomenico Romanelli
Le Siècle de Titien: L'âge d'or de la peinture à Venise, édition revue et corrigée 14, 1993 catalog of the exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, March 9-June, by Michel Laclotte
Tintoretto: Sacre rappresentazioni nelle chiese di Venezia 31, 1994 catalog of the exhibition at San Bartolomeo, Venice, January 15-May
Jacopo Tintoretto: Ritratti March 25-July 10, 1994 catalog of the exhibition at the Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice,, by Paola Rossi
Jacopo Tintoretto e i suoi incisori 15-July 10, 1994, catalog of the exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, April
Capolavori della pittura veneta dal Castello di Praga 20-September 21, 1994 catalog of the exhibition at the Palazzo Crepadona, Belluno, March
June 9, 1994: Sons and Daughters of Chicago
Plan of Chicago by Daniel H. Burnham, by Edward H. Bennett, edited by Charles Moore
Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel by Carla Cappetti
Henry Hobson Richardson: J.J. Glessner House, Chicago by Elaine Harrington
Frank Lloyd Wright 10, 1994 An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York February 20–May
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect catalog of the exhibition edited by Terence Riley
May 12, 1994: A Class Act
Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events by Murray Kempton
April 21, 1994: The Saint of Mott Street
October 21, 1993: Chicago Underground
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893 by James Gilbert
Constructing Chicago by Daniel Bluestone
Louis H. Sullivan: A System of Architectural Ornament Inc., 986 Woodland Avenue, Plainfield, NJ 07006, 908-757-4700; (fax) 908-756-4133. Discount available for booksellers.) foreword by John Zukowsky, by Susan Glover Godlewski, essay by Lauren S Weingarden
September 23, 1993: Living Others' Deaths
Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States by Helen Prejean C.S.J.
August 12, 1993: The Aesthete
The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello an exhibition at Monticello, Virginia,April 13–December 31, 1993
The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello by Susan R. Stein
June 10, 1993: The City-Planner Pope
Roma Sisto Quinto: arte, architetture e città fra rinascemento e barocco edited by Mario Bevilacqua et al.
Le arti nelle Marche al tempo di Sisto V edited by Paolo Dal Poggetto
I pittori di Sisto V by Alessandro Zuccari
Sisto V: Architetture per la città edited by Maria Piera Sette, edited by Simona Benedetti
La pianta di Roma al tempo di Sisto V (1585–1590) edited by Gianfranco Spagnesi et al.
May 13, 1993: Hanging Out with Greeks
The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics by Bernard Knox
New Perspectives in Early Greek Art England edited by Diana Buittron-Oliver
The Norton Book of Classical Literature edited by Bernard Knox
February 11, 1993: Popes and Pagans
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture DC, January 6–April 30, 1993 catalog of the exhibition at the Library of Congress, Washington,, edited by Anthony Grafton
From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance by N.G. Wilson
Piero della Francesca by Carlo Bertelli, translated by Edward Farrelly
December 17, 1992: Athena's Magic
The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy, The Fifth Century BC November 22, 1992–February 7, 1993; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York March 11–May 23, 1993 an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy, The Fifth Century BC catalog of the exhibition, edited by Diana Buitron-Oliver
The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes 1992–January 3, 1993 an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago October 10,
The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes catalog of the exhibition, edited by Richard F. Townsend
Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual by Christopher A. Faraone
November 19, 1992: Undemocratic Vistas
Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy by George F. Will
November 5, 1992: Father Knows Best
October 22, 1992: A Doll's House?
September 24, 1992: The Born-Again Republicans
August 13, 1992: The Hostage
June 25, 1992: The Rescuer
April 23, 1992: Homer Alive
Kings: An Account of Books 1 and 2 of Homer's 'Iliad' by Christopher Logue
April 9, 1992: The Buchanan Canon (letter)
March 5, 1992: H.R. Clinton's Case
'Children Under the Law' (1974) reprinted as the lead article in The Rights of Children, edited by Rochelle Beck, by Heather Bastow Weiss
'Children's Policies: Abandonment and Neglect'
'Children's Rights: A Legal Perspective' in Children's Rights: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Patricia A. Vardin, by Ilene N. Brody
'Teacher Education: Of the People, By the People, and For the People' on Teacher Education Policies, Practices, and Research in Beyond the Looking Glass: Papers From a National Symposium
'The Healthy Development of Our Youth' Foundations, 1988 Keynote Address to the Atlanta Convention of Southeastern Council of
'A Bridge Over the Mississippi' Memphis State University, 1990 Kansas Work Force, 1991 Keynote Address to the Second Annual Urban Education Symposium at. Keynote Address to the Conference on Adult Basic Skills and the
February 13, 1992: The Golden 'Blade'
January 30, 1992: Why Cuomo Said No
January 16, 1992: The Presbyterian Nietzsche
Woodrow Wilson by August Heckscher
Woodrow Wilson: A Life for World Peace by Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt, translated by Herbert H. Rowen
Young Nietzsche: Becoming A Genius by Carl Pletsch
America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State by Ronald Schaffer
November 21, 1991: Man of the Year
Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration 1991–January, 12, 1992 an exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, DC, October 12,
Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration catalog of the exhibition, edited by Jay A. Levensen
The Worlds of Christopher Columbus by William D. Phillips Jr., by Carla Rahn Phillips
Renaissance Characters edited by Eugenio Garin, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane
In Search of Columbus: The Sources for the First Voyage by David Henige
The 'Libro de las profecias' of Christopher Columbus by Delno C. West, by August Kling
Columbus by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians by Jeffrey Burton Russell
1492 by Jacques Attali
Out of Italy: 1450–1650 by Fernand Braudel, translated by Sián Reynolds
Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World by Stephen Greenblatt
Columbus: The Great Adventure: His Life, His Times, and His Voyages by Paolo Emilio Taviani, translated by Luciano F. Farina, by Marc A. Beckwith
Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari by Paul Barolsky
July 18, 1991: Keeper of the Seal
Counsel to the President: A Memoir by Clark Clifford, with Richard Holbrooke
June 13, 1991: Dickens's Girls (letter)
June 13, 1991: The Man Who Wasn't There
President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime by Lou Cannon
A Very Thin Line: the Iran-Contra Affairs by Theodore Draper
May 16, 1991: The Angels and Devils of Dickens
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens 'Angelfish' Correspondence, 1905–1910 edited by John Cooley
Victorian Subjects by J. Hillis Miller
Dickens and the 1830s by Kathryn Chittick
March 28, 1991: A Tale of Three Cities
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann
January 17, 1991: The Long Voyage Home
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
December 20, 1990: Mr. Magoo Remembers
An American Life by Ronald Reagan
November 22, 1990: Goodbye, Columbus
The Harp and the Shadow by Alejo Carpentier, translated by Thomas Christensen, by Carol Christensen
The Dogs of Paradise by Abel Posse, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy by Kirkpatrick Sale
October 25, 1990: Long-Distance Runner
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
July 19, 1990: The Politics of Grievance
The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath by Kevin Phillips
June 28, 1990: Mario Cuomo's Trouble with Abortion
June 14, 1990: Henry Adams as Holy Fool
April 26, 1990: Monstre Désacré
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
January 18, 1990: Shylock Without Usury
Shylock Reconsidered: Jews, Moneylending, and Medieval Society by Joseph Shatzmiller
God and the Moneylenders: Usury and Law in Early Modern England by Norman Jones
The Merchant of Venice a play by William Shakespeare, directed by Peter Hall
December 21, 1989: The Phallic Pulpit
Fall From Grace: The Failed Crusade of the Christian Right by Michael d'Antonio
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture of America by Randall Balmer
Forgiven: The Rise and Fall of Jim Bakker and the PTL Ministry by Charles E. Shepard
November 23, 1989: The Power of Impotence
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward
October 26, 1989: Love in the Lower Depths
October 12, 1989: Mr. Memory
The Bellarosa Connection by Saul Bellow
September 28, 1989: An Exchange on Mark Twain
June 15, 1989: Evangels of Abortion
March 30, 1989: The Dark Legacy of the Enlightenment
The Image of the Black in Western Art Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1, Slaves and Liberators by Hugh Honour
The Image of the Black in Western Art Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 2, Black Models and White Myths by Hugh Honour
March 2, 1989: Juggler's Code
Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
February 2, 1989: Civil Rights & the Kennedys (letter)
February 2, 1989: Dorrit Without Politics
Little Dorrit a film directed by Christine Edzard, based on the novel by Charles Dickens
January 19, 1989: Coriolanus Without Rome
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare, directed by Steven Berkoff
December 22, 1988: The Election and the Future: A Symposium
November 24, 1988: Aeromance (letter)
November 10, 1988: The Kennedys in the King Years
Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties by Richard N. Goodwin
Robert Kennedy In His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years edited by Edwin O. Guthman, edited by Jeffrey Shulman
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963 by Taylor Branch
October 13, 1988: Jesus in the Mean Streets
The Last Temptation of Christ a film directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Paul Schrader
August 18, 1988: 'New Votuhs'
The Best Congress Money Can Buy by Philip M. Stern
Why Americans Don't Vote by Frances Fox Piven, by Richard A. Cloward
Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights by Abigail M. Thernstrom
Character: America's Search for Leadership by Gail Sheehy
June 16, 1988: Big Buddy
For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington by Donald T. Regan
April 28, 1988: More Than a Game
The Power Game: How Washington Really Works by Hedrick Smith
March 17, 1988: Aerie Visions
The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon by Michael S. Sherry
February 18, 1988: Blood Sport
The Manly Art by Elliott J. Gorn
John L. Sullivan and His America by Michael T. Isenberg
Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society by Jeffrey T. Sammons
On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates
November 24, 1983: Jefferson's Jesus
Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels: "The Philosophy of Jesus" and "The Life and Morals of Jesus" edited by Dickinson W. Adams
February 19, 1981: Embers of Guilt
The Sea and Poison (Umi to Dokuyaku, 1958) translated by Michael Galagher
Wonderful Fool (Obaka San, 1959) translated by Francis Mathy
Volcano (Kazan, 1959) translated by Richard A. Schuchert
Silence (Chinmoku, 1966) translated by William Johnston
The Golden Country (Ogon no Kuni, 1966) translated by Francis Mathy
A Life of Jesus (Iesu no Shogai, 1973) translated by Richard Schuchert
When I Whistle (Kuchibue o fuku toki, 1974) translated by Van C. Gessel
February 8, 1979: How Carter Hangs On
October 26, 1978: Hyperopia (letter)
August 17, 1978: Typhoon on the Bay
Chesapeake by James A. Michener
July 20, 1978: A Guy Like I
Wheeling and Dealing: Confessions of a Capitol Hill Operator by Bobby Baker, by Larry L. King
The Senate Nobody Knows by Bernard Asbell
June 15, 1978: The Party Isn't Over
The Parties: Republicans and Democrats in This Century by Henry Fairlie
June 1, 1978: Panama: A New Peril
May 18, 1978: An Exchange on Adam Smith
April 20, 1978: Schorr's Case (letter)
April 20, 1978: The Honor of Alger Hiss
Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein
April 6, 1978: Heroic Darkness
The Ends of Power by H.R. Haldeman, by Joseph DiMona
With Nixon by Raymond Price
February 9, 1978: Benevolent Adam Smith
The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, I. The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith, edited by D.D. Raphael, by A.L. Macfie.
The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, II. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, edited by R.H. Campbell, edited by A.S. Skinner, textual editor W.B. Todd
Essays on Adam Smith edited by A.S. Skinner, edited by Thomas Wilson
The Market and the State: Essays in Honour of Adam Smith edited by Thomas Wilson, edited by Andrew S. Skinner
November 24, 1977: A Hard Case
Clearing the Air by Daniel Schorr
September 29, 1977: The Trials of Bert and Jimmy
June 9, 1977: 'Running for President' (letter)
May 12, 1977: Carter and the End of Liberalism
America in Our Time by Godfrey Hodgson
The Collapse of Liberal Empire: Science and Revolution in the Twentieth Century by Paul N. Goldstene
Public Constraint and American Policy in Vietnam by Bruce Andrews
April 28, 1977: Reading the Carter Riddle
The Search for Jimmy Carter by Tom Collins
Running for President 1976: The Carter Campaign by Martin Schram
How Jimmy Won: The Victory Campaign from Plains to the White House by Kandy Stroud
Convention by Richard Reeves
We Almost Made It by Malcolm D. MacDougall
The Natural Superiority of Southern Politicians: A Revisionist History by David Leon Chandler
March 31, 1977: Reading the Goncourts (letter)
March 3, 1977: Martyrdom at the Met
Dialogues of the Carmelites an opera in three acts by Francis Poulenc, libretto drawn by the composer from a text by Georges Bernanos
February 17, 1977: Machines for Sentiment
Jean-Baptiste Greuze: 1725-1805 1976-January 23, 1977 (Also at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, March 5-May 1, 1977, and at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, June 4-July 31, 1977) Selection and catalogue by Edgar Munhall. For exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, December 1,
January 20, 1977: Imprisoned in the Sixties
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine by Tom Wolfe
Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses and Ruins from a Long War by Gloria Emerson
November 25, 1976: Carter on His Own
November 11, 1976: The Founders' Virtues
The Challenge of the American Revolution by Edmund S. Morgan
The Meaning of Independence: Adams, Washington and Jefferson by Edmund S. Morgan
Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue by Merrill D. Peterson
The Character of John Adams by Peter Shaw
The Life of George Washington by Washington Irving, edited by Jess Stein
George Washington: A Biography by Washington Irving, edited by Charles Neider
Jefferson: A Revealing Biography by Page Smith
October 14, 1976: Trumbull's Klutzy Triumph
Trumbull: The Declaration of Independence by Irma B. Jaffe
John Trumbull: Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution by Irma B. Jaffe
Paul Revere's Boston: 1735-1818 Graphic Society by Walter M. Whitehill
The Eye of Thomas Jefferson edited by William Howard Adams
Maryland Heritage edited by John B. Boles
French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution
September 16, 1976: Dead Heat Dumb-Out
August 5, 1976: The Carter Question I: Love and Profit
June 24, 1976: Singing 'Mammy' to Doris
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns
LBJ: An Irreverent Chronicle by Booth Mooney
June 24, 1976: At the Waldorf (letter)
June 10, 1976: Anti-Papa Politics
April 29, 1976: The Real Reason Chappaquiddick Disqualifies Kennedy
The Last Kennedy by Robert Sherrill
Edward Kennedy and the Camelot Legacy by James MacGregor Burns
Senator Ted Kennedy: The Career Behind the Image by Theo Lippman Jr.
March 4, 1976: Cato's Gang
The Hard Years: A Look at Contemporary America and American Institutions by Eugene J. McCarthy
If Men Were Angels: A View from the Senate by James L. Buckley
Charles Percy: A Political Perspective by Robert E. Hartley
Scoop: The Life and Politics of Henry M. Jackson by Peter J. Ognibene
January 22, 1976: The CIA from Beginning to End
November 13, 1975: Someone to Watch Over You
The Abuses of the Intelligence Agencies Washington, DC 20002) by The Center for National Security Studies, edited by Jerry J. Berman, by Morton H. Halperin
October 30, 1975: The Sporting Life
Muhammad Ali: A Portrait in Words and Photographs by Wilfrid Sheed
SportsWorld by Robert Lipsyte
The Fight by Norman Mailer
The Greatest: My Own Story by Muhammad Ali, by Richard Durham
October 16, 1975: He's Not So Dumb
Portrait of a President by Hugh Sidey, photographs by Fred Ward
The President by John Hersey
Gerald Ford and the Future of the Presidency by Jerald F. terHorst
A Ford, Not a Lincoln by Richard Reeves
September 18, 1975: Yale Enlightened
August 7, 1975: The Augustinian Ruskin
The Failing Distance: The Autobiographical Impulse in John Ruskin by Jay Fellows
June 12, 1975: Good Henry & Bad Henry
The Kissinger Experience: American Policy in the Middle East by Gil Carl AlRoy
June 12, 1975: A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam
May 29, 1975: Do We Need Prisons? An Exchange
May 15, 1975: Backstairs at Court
Conversations with Kennedy by Benjamin C. Bradlee
Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House by William Safire
May 1, 1975: Gorgeous Sills
The Siege of Corinth by Gioacchino Rossini, libretto by Luigi Balocchi, by Alexander Soumet, conducted by Thomas Schippers. at the Metropolitan Opera
Mawrdew Czgowchwz by James McCourt
April 3, 1975: The Human Sewer
A Time to Die by Tom Wicker
January 23, 1975: The Man the Democrats Need
August 8, 1974: The Big Week in Washington
July 18, 1974: Executive Privilege: Jefferson & Burr & Nixon & Ehrlichman
June 13, 1974: The Kingdom of Heaven
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein, by Bob Woodward
May 16, 1974: An Un-American Politician?
Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809 (Volume Five of "Jefferson and His Time") Dumas Malone
May 2, 1974: The Strange Case of Jefferson's Subpoena
Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809 (Volume Five of "Jefferson and His Time") by Dumas Malone
April 18, 1974: Uncle Thomas's Cabin
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie
February 21, 1974: The Devil and Lolita
February 7, 1974: The Uses of John Foster Dulles
The Devil and John Foster Dulles by Townsend Hoopes
October 4, 1973: Death of a Salesman
The Making of the President—1972 by Theodore White
Us and Them: How the Press Covered the 1972 Election by James M. Perry
Campaign '72: The Managers Speak edited by Ernest R. May, edited by Janet Fraser
The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse
Right From the Start by Gary Hart
The Long Shot: George McGovern Runs for President by Gordon L. Weil
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, with illustrations by Ralph Steadman
From New York Review Books
 | Bush's Fringe Government One of America's foremost historians looks at the state of American democracy and the influence of the Catholic Church. |
 | The Jeffersonian Transformation The ideal introduction and companion to Adams's "massive and magisterial" history of the administrations of Jefferson and Madison, presenting an indelible picture of America's startling rise to world power. |
Books by Garry Wills
Why I Am a Catholic (2002)
Mr. Jefferson's University (2002)
Saint Augustine's Memory: Confessiones, Vol. 2 (2002)
James Madison (2002)
Chesterton (2001)
Venice: Lion City (2001)
Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (2000)
A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government (1999)
Saint Augustine (1999)
John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity (1997)
Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth (1995)
Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders (1994)
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (1992)
Under God: Religion and American Politics (1990)
Reagan's America: Innocents at Home (1987)
Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment (1984)
Lead Time: A Journalist's Education (1983)
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power (1982)
Explaining America: The Federalist (1981)
At Button's (1979)
Confessions of a Conservative (1979)
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1979)
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (1978)
Values Americans Live By (1974)
Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion (1972)
Jack Ruby (1968)
Roman culture: weapons and the man (1966)