New Releases by Garry Wills

Now in paperback, Wills''s acclaimed book presents a new way of relating the history of the city through its art and, in turn, illuminates the art through the city''s history. Illustrated with more than 130 works of art, 30 in full color.

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From one of America''s foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson''s original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the document. Although Jefferson has long been idealized as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which interdependence, not self-interest, lay at the foundation of society. "No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has . . . The results are little short of astonishing" (Edmund S. Morgan New York Review of Books ).

From one of America''s foremost historians, The Kennedy Imprisonment is the definitive historical and psychological analysis of the Kennedy clan. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills reveals a family that enjoyed public adulation but provided fluctuating leadership, that experienced both unparalleled fame and odd failures, and whose basic values ensnared its men in their own myths of success and masculinity. In the end, Wills reveals that the the Kennedys'' crippling conception of power touched every part of their public and private lives, including their relationships with women and world leaders. Sometimes gossipy, sometimes philosophical, The Kennedy Imprisonment is a book that is as true, insightful, and relevant as ever.

The pivotal volume of the Christian philosopher''s seminal work is translated and interpreted by Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills.

Durante siglos, los escritos de Agustin de Hipona han conmovido y fascinado a los lectores. Con la mirada fresca y atenta de un escritor cuyos propios analisis le han merecido un Premio Pulitzer, Garry Wills estudia a este conocido obispo y pensador del siglo IV.San Agustin nos descubre tanto al gran filosofo de la condicion humana como al hombre corriente, y cuestiona muchas interpretaciones erroneas de su vida, entre ellas la de los excesos de juventud.

Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur''an Meant, coming fall 2017. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg and Papal Sin captures the many dimensions of one of the twentieth century''s most influential writers. 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, literary criticism (including notable books on Browning, Dickens, and Shaw), and works of theology and religious argument, but may have been best known for his Father Brown mysteries. Chesterton''s interest in Catholic Christianity, first expressed in Orthodoxy, led to his conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1922. His classic Saint Francis of Assisi and the equally acclaimed Saint Thomas Aquinas confirmed his reputation as a writer with the rare ability to simultaneously entertain, inform, and enlighten readers. This revised edition of Garry Wills''s finely crafted biography includes updates to the text and a new Introduction by the author.

An exploration of the papacy challenges the culture of deceit that surrounds the Vatican in modern times, which prevents the church from facing its own history.

The early chapters of the "Confessions" are a source of information on one of the most important relationships in Saint Augustine''s life. This book is largely about his, and Wills argues that this is fundamental to the understanding of Augustine''s character, theology and worldview.

Durante séculos, os escritos de Agostinho comoveram e fascinaram seus leitores. COm o olhar perspicaz de um escritor cuja análise intelectual conquistou o Prêmio Pulitzer, Garry Wills examina a vida do famoso bispo e pensador fecundo cujo embasamento em filosofia clássica concebeu sua interpretação das doutrinas cristãs da mente e do corpo, sabedoria e Deus. ''Santo Agostinho'' explora a figura tanto do grande pensador da condição humana, quanto do homem comum que se pôs a escrever. NEsta biografia breve, Garry Wills desafia várias interpretações enganosas - entre elas o mito dos excessos sexuais cometidos por Agostinho na juventude. UM texto revelador que ilumina tanto o homem quanto a época.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lincoln at Gettysburg" brings his eloquence, his wit, and his on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn portrait of John Wayne, a true 20th-century hero. "Deeply satisfying at every level".--Michael Stern, "San Francisco Chronicle". of photos.

This book reinterprets Macbeth by returning it to the context of its own time, recreating the theological and political crises of Shakespeare''s era.

Examination of the Gettysburg Address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame breathing new life into the words and revealing much about the President.

James Wilson was an important but now obscure draftsman of the Constitution. Garry Wills is a journalist and historian fascinated by what went on in the minds of our founders. The two men meet in an imaginary diaglogue across the centuries.

"By investigating the interest Washington''s contemporaries had in him, and by playing that interest off against some of the perennial problems of political morality and the uses of power, Wills gives us a fresh perspective on our first President. Wills shows how Washington solved the problem of charismatic leadership by embodying the eighteenth-century Enlightenment idea: the creation of a revived classical republic. People responded to such leadership in verse, sermons, song, paintings, and sculpture. This book differs from other historical studies of political power by its use of evidence from a wide range of sources..." -- Dust jacket.

Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur''an Meant, coming fall 2017. Now with a new introduction--award-winning historian Garry Wills''s definitive analysis of the Federalist Papers In 1787 and 1788, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison published what remains perhaps the greatest example of political journalism in the English language--the Federalist Papers. Written to urge ratification of the Constitution, the eighty-five essays--trenchant in thought and graceful in expression--defended the Constitution not merely as a theoretical statement but as a practical instrument of rule. Now updated with a new introduction, Garry Wills''s classic study subjects these essays to rigorous analysis, illuminating, as only he can, their significance in the development of the philosophy on which our government is based.

Gregory Skipwith belongs to a club of eighteenth-century scholars called At Buttons. The club and the New York Public Library where Gregory works should have protected him from violence, but it doesn''t. He finds himself confronted with murder and violence even in these dim places. When he and his strange crew of scholars try to cope with a conspiracy of conspiratorialists in New Orleans these reach their climax.