Outside Looking In

Adventures of an Observer

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory, Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: Garry Wills ISBN: 9781101444412
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: October 14, 2010
Imprint: Penguin Books Language: English
Author: Garry Wills
ISBN: 9781101444412
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: October 14, 2010
Imprint: Penguin Books
Language: English

**"One of the country's most distinguished intellectuals [and] one of its most provocative."
-The New York Times

Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.**

Bookish and retiring, Garry Wills has been an outsider in the academy, in journalism, even in his church. Yet these qualities have, paradoxically, prompted people to share intimate insights with him- perhaps because he is not a rival, a competitor, or a threat. Sometimes this made him the prey of con men like conspiratorialist Mark Lane or civil rights leader James Bevel. At other times it led to close friendship with such people as William F. Buckley, Jr., or singer Beverly Sills. The result is the most personal book Wills has ever written.

With his dazzling style and journalist's eye for detail, Wills brings history to life, whether it's the civil rights movement; the protests against the Vietnam War; the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton; or the set of Oliver Stone's Nixon. Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times.

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**"One of the country's most distinguished intellectuals [and] one of its most provocative."
-The New York Times

Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.**

Bookish and retiring, Garry Wills has been an outsider in the academy, in journalism, even in his church. Yet these qualities have, paradoxically, prompted people to share intimate insights with him- perhaps because he is not a rival, a competitor, or a threat. Sometimes this made him the prey of con men like conspiratorialist Mark Lane or civil rights leader James Bevel. At other times it led to close friendship with such people as William F. Buckley, Jr., or singer Beverly Sills. The result is the most personal book Wills has ever written.

With his dazzling style and journalist's eye for detail, Wills brings history to life, whether it's the civil rights movement; the protests against the Vietnam War; the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton; or the set of Oliver Stone's Nixon. Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times.

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