Wills: 288 books
Lincoln at Gettysburg
The Words that Remade America
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training,...
Nixon Agonistes
The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
With a new preface: A “stunning” analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times Book Review).
In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon’s infamous “enemies list,” Garry Wills takes...
Verdi's Shakespeare
Men of the Theater
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
A dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare- and a spellbinding account of their creation.
In Verdi's Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant Shakespearian operas: Macbeth, Othello,...
Making Make-Believe Real
Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
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...
by John Wills
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Over the past century, Disney has grown from a small American animation studio into a multipronged global media giant. Today, the company’s annual revenue exceeds the GDP of over 100 countries, and its portfolio has grown to include Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, ABC, and ESPN. With a company so diversified,...
by Simon Wills
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
What was a merchant seaman’s life like in the past, what experiences would he have had, what were the ships like that he sailed in, and what risks did he run? Was he shipwrecked, rewarded for bravery, or punished? And how can you find out about an ancestor who was a member of the long British maritime...
Venice: Lion City
The Religion of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Garry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
One of our greatest historians offers a surprising new view of the greatest historian of the nineteenth century, Henry Adams.
Wills showcases Henry Adams's little-known but seminal study of the early United States and elicits from it fresh insights on the paradoxes that roil America to this...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn protrait of a twentieth-century hero. In this work of great originality-the biography of an idea-Garry Wills shows how John...
How Our Ancestors Died
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
What were the principal causes of death in the past? Could your ancestor have been affected? How was disease investigated and treated and what did our ancestors think about the illnesses and the accidents that might befall them? Simon Wills fascinating survey of the diseases that had an impact on...
Inventing America
Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
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...
Democratic Religion
Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 1996
No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In Under God, Pulitzer Prize winner and eminent political observer Garry Wills sheds light on the frequent collision between American politics and American religion.
Beginning with the 1988 presidential contest, an election that included two ministers and a senator accused of sin, award-winning...
James Madison
The American Presidents Series: The 4th President, 1809-1817
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A bestselling historian examines the life of a Founding Father.
Renowned historian and social commentator Garry Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the first...