Garry Wills

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1.		Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) from Simon & Schuster Price: $11.20 Customer Review: What a gift to a reader this book is. It is an opportunity to witness a brilliant mind explore a profound one.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		What Jesus Meant from Viking Adult Price: $6.99 Customer Review: I'm quite disappointed that there are people in this world who can openly dissent from church teaching yet write and act as though the Church is the one dissenting. Wills thinks of himself as God by interpreting the bible to his own likings and to fit his own beliefs.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		What Paul Meant from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $4.49 Customer Review: Wills has written three books of interest: What Paul Meant, What Jesus Meant, and What the Gospels Meant. In What Paul Meant Wills puts forth the notion that Paul's writings (not the pseudo Paul) provide a clearer picture of Jesus than the Gospels because he was closer to the time of Jesus, knew and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		What the Gospels Meant from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.20 Customer Review: Garry Wills' knowledge of ancient Greek drives this discourse where he continually reminds us to consider the historical setting of Jesus' life, the motivation of each gospel writer in telling his story, and the importance they all placed on linking Jesus with the Jewish scripture and prophecies.... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Head and Heart: American Christianities from Penguin Press HC, The Price: $11.98 Customer Review: I look up to Garry Wills when it comes to understanding and practicing religion in the most sensible way possible in our time of extremism. He is so good at contextualizing religion, and he does it in a very factual and respectful way. This book is very dense and provides enormous amount of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		James Madison: (The American Presidents Series) from Times Books Price: $14.96 Customer Review: The author gives a review of Madison's service and Presidency but not a full biography. There is good information on how the political landscape changed during his Presidency and how Madison, the consummate politician navigated through it. The book is not very deep personally (like say an Ambrose... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		Why I Am a Catholic from Mariner Books Price: $11.20 Customer Review: The postscript for the book should be, "And Who Cares"? To a younger person, the penchant for self importance and navel gazing by Mr. Wills and his generation is amusing. In all, Mr. Wills and his freinds posses fairly unoriginal views that can be summed at as, "Why won't the Catholic Church just... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence from Mariner Books Price: $10.20 Customer Review: This book has had a place of honor on my bookshelf for many years. Wills excels at bringing a fresh perspective on historical issues, showing that old topics are still relevant to modern concerns. As usual in his books, he does not give the reader a really comprehensive or balanced discussion. But... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		Saint Augustine: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.40 Customer Review: It's hard to love St. Augustine. Even as one of the most influential religious thinkers in the history of Christianity--the image of heaven as a holy city, the City of God, was his idea--and as the author of his Confessions, arguably the first confessional biography (and a model for many of the... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man from Mariner Books Price: $13.50 Customer Review: The English poet and Cromwellian revolutionary John Milton had his Samson struggling against forces that he did not understand and that in the end he was unable to overcome. Professor Wills in his seminal contemporaneous study of the career through his successful run in 1968, up close and personal,... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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