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Making Make-Believe Real - Politics As Theater in Shakespeare's Time by Garry Wills
Category: Reference
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, ...Show more
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man by Professor of History Garry Wills
Category: Politics
From one of America's most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the president's opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixon was actually a liberal. Both entertaining and essential, Nixon Agonistes captures a troubled leader an ...Show more
Outside Looking in: Adventures of an Observer by Garry Wills
Category: Biography Memoir
A captivating memoir from the incomparable Garry Wills, "one of the country's most distinguished intellectuals" ("The New York Times Book Review") Illuminating and provocative, "Outside Looking In" is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times. With his dazzling style and ...Show more
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton; James Madison; John Jay; Garry Wills (Introduction by, Editor)
Category: Non Fiction
The Federalist PapersBy Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (Authored by), James Madison (Authored by)
The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis by Garry Wills
Category: Biography Memoir
Garry Wills, the prizewinning historian, argues that changes have been the evidence of life in the Catholic Church. It has often changed, sometimes with bad consequences, more often with good. In this brilliant and incisive study, he gives seven examples of deep and serious changes that have taken place ...Show more
The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis by Garry Wills
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Secondhand. The New York Times bestselling historian takes on a pressing question in modern religion--will Pope Francis embrace change?Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope and the first from the Americas, offers a challenge to his church. Can he bring about significant change? Should he? Garry Wills ...Show more
Throwing Thunderbolts - A Wargamer's Guide to the War of the First Coalition, 1792-7 by Garry David Wills
Category: History | Series: Helion Wargames Ser.
'Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law... they throw thunderbolts!' -- Maximilien Robespierre.Throwing Thunderbolts is a unique guide to wargaming the wars of the French Revolution that both the beginner and experienced wargamer, new to the period, will enjoy and find useful. This is a b ...Show more
Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of the Theater by Garry Wills
Category: Music
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, " an ...Show more
Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of the Theater by Garry Wills
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
"Riveting . . . a double-barreled salvo that hits two bull's-eyes." --"The New York Times Book Review" This dazzling study of the three operas that Giuseppe Verdi adapted from Shakespeare's plays takes readers on a wonderfully engaging journey through opera, music, literature, history, and the nature of ...Show more
What Jesus Meant by Garry Wills
Category: Spirituality
In what are billed culture wars, people on the political right and the political left cite Jesus as endorsing their views. Garry Wills argues that Jesus subscribed to no political program. He was far more radical than that. In a fresh reading of the gospels, Wills explores the meaning of the reign of he ...Show more