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Garry Wills

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Name: Garry Wills
Birth Date: May 22, 1934
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Garry Wills
7,631 words, approx. 25 pages
For Garry Wills, reading is a political act, a complicated, historically embedded performance that re-imagines--simultaneously reinforcing and revising--the political and ethical structures that shape community. Trained as a classical scholar and...


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Garry Wills Information
415 words, approx. 1 pages
Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an author and historian, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. In 1993, he won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That...


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Garry Wills On Reagan
03/06/1988: 511 words, approx. 2 pages
Garry Wills' "Reagan's America" (Penguin, $8.95), Christopher J. Matthews wrote in these pages last year, "does to 'the Great Communicator' what he once did brilliantly to Richard Nixon." Wills' study of the president's Midwestern roots and California career "lets friend and foe alike see...
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History: Review of New Books
Wills, Garry James Madison.
06/22/2002: 536 words, approx. 2 pages
New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc. 185 pp., $20.00, ISBN 0-8050-6905-4 Publication Date: April 2002 In his eight-page introduction, Garry Wills, the prolific and prize-winning author, dissects James Madison's failures as president, emphasizing his committeeman temperament, his provincialism, his naivete, his idealism,...
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Garry Wills and the art of correction
10/18/2007: 1,476 words, approx. 5 pages
Like the conductor of his own chamber orchestra, Garry Wills presides over three metal music stands while at work in his study, his chosen "scores" including dictionaries of Greek, Latin and Italian.He might need, for example, to look up the Greek word "ekklesia," which appears...
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AP News
John Wayne celebrated on 100th birthday
5/23/2007: 1,097 words, approx. 4 pages
On the 100th anniversary of John Wayne's birth, the Duke still swaggers through the American psyche as not just an actor, but a patriot _ his centennial spawning fond remembrance, and perhaps a few small protests on the side.Wayne's legacy is unique because of the...
 


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