Garry Wills
Forfatter af Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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Garry Wills, 1934 - Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1934. Wills received a B.A. from St. Louis University in 1957, an M.A. from Xavier University of Cincinnati in 1958, an M.A. (1959) and a Ph.D. (1961) in classics from Yale. Wills was a junior fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies vis mere from 1961-62, an associate professor of classics and adjunct professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University from 1962-80. Wills was the first Washington Irving Professor of Modern American History and Literature at Union College, and was also a Regents Professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Silliman Seminarist at Yale, Christian Gauss Lecturer at Princeton, W.W. Cook Lecturer at the University of Michigan Law School, Hubert Humphrey Seminarist at Macalester College, Welch Professor of American Studies at Notre Dame University and Henry R. Luce Professor of American Culture and Public Policy at Northwestern University (1980-88). Wills is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his articles appear frequently in The New York Review of Books. Wills is the author of "Lincoln at Gettysburg," which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1993 and the NEH Presidential Medal, "John Wayne's America," "A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government" and "The Kennedy Imprisonment." Other awards received by Wills include the National Book Critics Award, the Merle Curti Award of the organization of American Historians, the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale Graduate School, the Harold Washington Book Award and the Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, which was for writing and narrating the 1988 "Frontline" documentary "The Candidates." (Bowker Author Biography) Garry Wills is a Pulitzer-prize winning historian and cultural critic. A former professor of Greek at Yale University, his many books include Lincoln at Gettysburg, Reagan's America, Witches and Jesuits, and a biography of Saint Augustine. He lives in Evanston, Indiana. (Publisher Provided) Garry Wills is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Evanston, Illinois. (Publisher Provided) vis mindre
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Værker af Garry Wills
Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism (Emblems of Antiquity) (2012) 78 eksemplarer
Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series) (1600) 60 eksemplarer
Lyric Opera: 50 Years of Grand Opera in Chicago 2 eksemplarer
Nixon Agonistes (Mentor Series) Upd Exp edition by Wills, Garry (1971) Mass Market Paperback 2 eksemplarer
CERTAIN TRUMPETS : Signed Easton Press 2 eksemplarer
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America by Garry Wills (1992-06-15) (1800) 1 eksemplar
Roman Culture, Weapons and Man 1 eksemplar
What the Gospels meant 1 eksemplar
Sappho 31 and Catullus 51 1 eksemplar
Martial's Epigrams 1 eksemplar
Niet de meest conventionele kandidaat Abraham Lincoln en Barack Obama over ras in Amerika (2009) 1 eksemplar
Lincoln's Greatest Speech? [periodical article] 1 eksemplar
The Theodore H. White Lecture 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Bidragyder — 429 eksemplarer
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Bidragyder — 154 eksemplarer
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Bidragyder — 92 eksemplarer
Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century (1970) — Bidragyder — 82 eksemplarer
What Is Conservatism?: A New Edition of the Classic by 12 Leading Conservatives (1964) — Bidragyder — 45 eksemplarer
Augustine's Confessions (Critical Essays on the Classics Series) (2006) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
The William and Mary Quarterly, July 1987: Constitution of the United States — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
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- Wills, Garry
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- WILLS, Garry
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- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Yale University (MA|1959|Ph.D|Classics|1961)
Xavier University (MA|1958)
St. Louis University (BA|1957) - Erhverv
- historian
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- Buckley, William F., Jr. (employer)
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- Northwestern University
Johns Hopkins University
Roman Catholic Church
National Review - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- National Humanities Medal (1998)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1995)
Pulitzer Prize (1993)
American Philosophical Society (2003)
St. Louis Literary Award (2004)
Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement (2001) (vis alle 9)
National Book Critics Circle Award (1978, 1992)
Order of Lincoln (2006)
Merle Curti Award (1979)
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For all bibliophiles and those passionate about politics and journalism.
Another volume in this series that doesn't have nearly as much of a biography of the book as I would have expected - it's far more about Augustine and his thinking rather than the context of the book and its publication history.
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Along with this book I also read the canonical gospels through from start to finish, which I think is the first time I've done that. I'd rank them in personal preference:
1)John: the most interesting and complex debates between Jesus and his opponents, and what may be my favorite story, the accused adulteress and "let he among you without sin cast the first stone". What WAS Jesus writing in the dirt there? And as a fan of memorable first lines, John really comes through on that measure.
2)Luke. I love the Song of Simeon/Nunc Dimittis. I always read it as it was sung on the soundtrack of the movie Hideaway; incredible. The parable of the Good Samaritan. "Father into your hands I commend my spirit" is my favorite version of what Jesus exclaims from the cross. Not the pathos of "My God, why have you forsaken me", admittedly, but I go for the literary formality.
3)Matthew. Seems strange to have the gospel containing the Sermon on the Mount down here. And the author created the best structured gospel, probably. Still, didn't quite connect with it as much as I did with Luke and John. Maybe I felt he tried a little too hard to explain Jesus' life in terms of the Hebrew scriptures.
4)Mark. Kinda botched the ending there, Mark! At least from the viewpoint of everyone outside the Markan community. Credit for going first in writing down some of the oral stories told among the very early Christian communities, though. The most succinct gospel.… (mere)