Garry Wills

Biographic Data

ID256400
NAMEGarry Wills
GIVEN NAMESGarry
FAMILY NAMEWills
SIGNATUREWILLS G
AFFILIATIONSSouthern Baptist Theological Seminary
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS32
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Making Make-Believe Real

    Garry WillsBOOKMaking Make-Believe Real2020

    A penetrating study of the images, symbols, pageants, and creative performances ambitious Elizabethans used to secure political power Shakespeare’s plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe’s Edward II and Tam…

  • A Baptist Democracy

    Garry Wills, G A WillsARTICLEJournal of Church and State2013

    Journal Article A Baptist Democracy: Separating God from Caesar in the Land of the Free Get access A Baptist Democracy: Separating God from Caesar in the Land of the Free. By Lee Canipe. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2011. 198pp. $27.00. Gregory A. Wills Gregory A. Wills Southern Baptist Theological SeminaryLouisville, Kentucky [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and Sta…

  • Augustine's "Confessions"

    Garry WillsBOOKAugustine's Confessions2011

    A Note on the Translation vii Chapter 1: The Book's Birth 1 Chapter 2 :The Book's Genre 17 Chapter 3: The Book's African Days 26 Chapter 4: The Book's Ambrose 41 Chapter 5: The Book's Conversion 58 Chapter 6: The Book's Baptismal Days 78 Chapter 7: The Book's Hinge 98 Chapter 8: The Book's Culmination 112 Chapter 9: The Book's Afterlife: Early Reception, Later Neglect 133 Notes 149 Basic Readings 155 Index 157

  • Augustine's Confessions

    Garry WillsBOOKAugustine's Confessions2011

  • Rome and Rhetoric

    Garry Wills, Gary WillsBOOKRome and Rhetoric2011

  • Vergil and St. Augustine

    Open AccessGarry WillsOTHERA Companion to Vergil's Aeneid…2010

    This chapter contains sections titled: Dido and Monnica Teaching Vergil Renouncing Vergil Using Vergil Remembering Vergil Further Reading

  • Lincoln Revisited

    Jean Baker, Jean Harvey Baker et al.BOOKLincoln Revisited2009

  • Politics and the Misadventures of Thomas Jefferson's Modern Reputation

    Jeffrey L Pasley, Michael Knox Beran et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2006

  • Henry Adams and the Making of America

    Walter Russell Mead, Garry WillsARTICLEForeign Affairs2006

  • James Madison

    Walter Russell Mead, Garry WillsARTICLEForeign Affairs2002

  • Who Owns the Eighteenth Century

    Joseph J Ellis, Thomas G West et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2000

  • Bully of the Free World

    Garry WillsARTICLEForeign Affairs1999Cited by: 4

    Foreign policy has become an ambiguous phrase. It once meant leading American people in formation and execution of national policy. But some now use it to state a less obvious idea: United States leading other nations in international arena. Why should other nations follow U.S. leaders rather than their own? Leadership involves some common stake between leader and led, some basis for agreement on goals to be sought and prices to be paid. The more…

  • John Wayne's America

    John H Lenihan, Garry WillsARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1999

    Journal Article John Wayne's America Get access John Wayne's America. By Wills Garry. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 380 pp. Illustrations, notes, indexes. $19.00, paper, Canada; $14.00, paper, US) John H. Lenihan John H. Lenihan Texas A & M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 4, Winter 1999, Page 530, https://doi.org/10.2307/971448 Published: 01 No…

  • American Treasures of the Library of Congress

    Carol B Stapp, Library of Congress Library of Congress et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    “American Treasures of the Library of Congress.” Library of Congress, First St. and Independence Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20540 Carol B. Stapp Carol B. Stapp George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar My thanks to Abby Smith, Irene Chambers, Cheryl Regan, and Sally Livingston of the Library of Congress for additional information, to Anne Holmes and Averi Roberts of the Ge…

  • John Wayne's America

    Richard White, Garry WillsARTICLEJournal of American History1997Cited by: 2

    Journal Article John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity. By Garry Wills. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 380 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-684-80823-4.) Get access Richard White Richard White University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1139–1140, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953225 Published: 01 December 199…

  • Lincoln at Gettsburg

    Harold Holzer, Garry WillsARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1994

  • Certain Trumpets

    Francis Fukuyama, Garry WillsARTICLEForeign Affairs1994Cited by: 1

  • Dishonest Abe

    Paul A Rahe, Garry WillsARTICLEReviews in American History1993Cited by: 1

    Garry Wills has never been an admirer of Abraham Lincoln. In 1964, when he was closely associated with Willmoore Kendall and wrote for William F. Buckley's National Review, he published an essay in which he distinguished dangerous dreamers who embraced inspirational political theories and conceived of government as the order of justice from really great conservatives who stood against enthusiasms that commanded power centers of their day because …

  • God and Contemporary Politics

    Leo P Ribuffo, Garry Wills et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article God and Contemporary Politics Get access Leo P. Ribuffo Leo P. Ribuffo professor of history George Washington University, is writing a history of the Carter presidency in broad social and cultural contexts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1515–1533, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080214 Published: 01 March 1993

  • Lincoln at Gettysburg

    Garry WillsBOOKLincoln at Gettysburg1992

  • Message in the Deodorant Bottle

    Garry WillsARTICLECritical Inquiry1989Cited by: 3

  • We the People

    Theodore J Karamanski, Alfred F Young et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1988

  • Back to the Future

    Open AccessAnthony Corrado, Garry Wills et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1988

  • Talking Ourselves Out of a Fight

    Garry WillsARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1987

    G_ ORDON S. Wood's great work will always impress, on first reading or endless rereadings, by the closeness and subtlety with which he traces the interplay between political event and political interpretation in the I770s and I78os. Practice and theory tug and collide, linked together even when at odds with each other. Sometimes events force arguments, but not always. Wood knows that mere events do not directly or inevitably cause their own repre…

  • Cincinnatus

    Jack K Martins, JAMES KIRBY MARTIN et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1985