Garry Wills

Garry Wills has authored many books that study George Washington, Richard Nixon, the Kennedy family, Ronald Reagan, and religion in America. He has won many literary awards including, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction for his book Lincoln at Gettysburg He currently serves as Professor Emeritus of History at Northwestern University.

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Liberté, Egalité, Animosité, July/August 1989 | Vol. 40, No. 5

When the French Revolution broke out 200 years ago this month, Americans greeted it enthusiastically. After all, without the French, we could never have become free. But the cheers faded as the brutality of the convulsion emerged, and Americans realized that they were still only a feeble newborn facing a giant, intimidating world power.

How Pure Must Our Candidates Be?, May/June 1988 | Vol. 39, No. 4

The distasteful questions we ask our presidential hopefuls serve a real purpose.

Interview With A Founding Father, May/June 1987 | Vol. 38, No. 4

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

Mason Weems, Bibliopolist, February/March 1981 | Vol. 32, No. 2

To mark the birthdays of our two great Presidents, a new look at the legends that surround their memory … An admiring re-appraisal of the Cherry Tree Fable and its author, by Garry Wills , together with the Curious Story of Abraham Lincoln’s Lost Love Letters, by Don E. Fehrenbacher

Mason Weems: Reports From The Front, February/March 1981 | Vol. 32, No. 2

George Washington and “The Guilty, Dangerous & Vulgar Honor”, February/March 1980 | Vol. 31, No. 2

In an age of ersatz heroes, a fresh look at the real thing

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