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  • Bomb Power

    The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

    by Garry Wills ...
    **From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills, a groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy and has left us in a state of war alert ever since.Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.**In Bomb Power, Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lincoln at Gettysburg

    The Words that Remade America

    by Garry Wills ...
    Pulitzer Prize WinnerNational Book Critics Circle Award WinnerIn a masterly work, award-winning author Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence to write the greatest speech in the nation’s history.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 ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Reagan's America

    Innocents at Home

    by Garry Wills ...
    New York Times Bestseller: A "remarkable and evenhanded study of Ronald Reagan" from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg ( The New York Times).Updated with a new preface by the author, this captivating biography of America's fortieth president recounts Ronald Reagan's life—from his poverty-stricken Illinois childhood to his acting career to his California governorship to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why I Am a Catholic

    by Garry Wills ...
    An "intellectually satisfying, and spiritually moving," argument for a questioning, conscience-driven faith, by a New York Times bestselling author ( Booklist).Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills has been asked more than once why he remains in the Church, especially in the wake of his bestselling book Papal Sins, which examined the darker side of the religion's history. In Why I Am a Catholic, he ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inventing America

    Jefferson's Declaration of Independence

    by Garry Wills ...
    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 as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Venice: Lion City

    The Religion of Empire

    by Garry Wills ...
    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 centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with a shrewd commercial base, like ancient Athens, which ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Outside Looking In

    Adventures of an Observer

    by Garry Wills ...
    **"One of the country's most distinguished intellectuals [and] one of its most provocative."-The New York TimesLook 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- ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What Paul Meant

    by Garry Wills ...
    “If you think you knew Paul, get ready to have all sorts of cherished preconceptions exhilaratingly stripped away. If you've ever been vaguely curious, there is no finer introduction.” (Los Angeles Times)Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.In his New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant and What the Gospels Meant, ... ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Head and Heart

    A History of Christianity in America

    by Garry Wills ...
    Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.Gary Wills has won significant acclaim for his bestselling works of religion and history. Here, for the first time, he combines both disciplines in a sweeping examination of Christianity in America throughout the last 400 years. Wills argues that the struggle now, as throughout our nation's history, is between the ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Nixon Agonistes

    The Crisis of the Self-Made Man

    by Garry Wills ...
    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 a thoughtful, in-depth, and often "very amusing" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • John Wayne's America

    by Garry Wills ...
    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 Wayne came to embody Amercian values and influenced our cultoure to a degree unmatched by any other ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Confessions of a Conservative

    by Garry Wills ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author surveys his intellectual development, as well as the state of the American political system, in the 1960s and '70s."In his Confessions , Wills ranges from Jack Ruby to Cardinal Newman, from Everett Dirksen's Washington to St. Augustine's City of God. The pace is brisk, the intellectual hurdles high, the glimpses of autobiography charming." — Time... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus