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	Garry Wills’ Pedophilia Problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Okay, that was Garry Wills, Junior, whom I knew passingly in collegethe son of the crotchety, sometimes scholarly, often hysterical critic of the Catholic Church.
		Wills still calls himself a Catholic, but he seems to use the title as a convenience, a license to launch ever-more hateful screeds against his betters, those men and women who actually try to maintain a demanding moral code in promiscuous times, even when it makes a comfortable, bourgeois modern life hard to maintain.
		Wills’ latest attack is on the very institution of the priesthood, and his fljack of choice is pedophilia.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=1577 (1086 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . TRANSCRIPT . Garry Wills \| PBS
		GARRY WILLS: Well, I'd written about everything that is in the book in various places over the past two decades.
		WILLS: Yes, he has picked up the positions that Paul the Sixth and others had formed on the ordination of women, on married priests, on contraception, on all those things, and reemphasized them and strengthened them in some cases.
		WILLS: A lot of these things are unbelievable to them and so that leads to a kind of split within the church among what Catholics actually do and what the pope says they should be doing.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/transcripts/wills.html (2130 words)

	"A Necessary Evil," By Garry Wills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Garry Wills, a history professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, is the author of more than 20 volumes, including " Lincoln at Gettysburg," a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1993.
		Professor Wills maintains that these debates are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the Founding Fathers, in particular, and of American history in general.
		Garry Wills suggests that these myths, derived from a false reading of history, directly affect the way Americans look at government today.
	www.familyhaven.com /books/necessaryevil.html (931 words)

	Modern Kicks: In Garry Wills' Dreams
		Garry Wills has a review article on Bill Clinton's book in the latest New York Review of Books.
		Nothing more need be said regarding the book, but Wills using the occasion to once again argue, as he did at the time, that Clinton should have resigned during the Lewinsky affair.
		Wills needs to insist on the pollyannaish scenario above, however, as he bases his argument for resignation pretty much entirely on pragmatic grounds.
	modernkicks.typepad.com /modern_kicks/2004/07/in_garry_willss.html (306 words)

	Online NewsHour: A Necessary Evil- December 3, 1999
		GARRY WILLS: Well, first of all, the anti-Federalists, the opponents of it, said there are no checks and balances, because they thought that meant recall and instruction, and all of that.
		GARRY WILLS: Well, I think the way we have to go is to say government is dangerous, so we have to control it.
		David's role will be changing for the duration of the political season.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/july-dec99/gergen_12-3.html (1398 words)

	Washington University - News & Information
		Garry Wills, one of America's foremost historians, will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa / Sigma Xi Lecture as part of the Washington University Assembly Series at 4 p.m.
		Wills is a distinguished historian and cultural critic.
		Reviewers have praised Wills' ability to examine people and events in their historical moment and cultural frame and "to peel away layers of myth to extract the original context." He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
	news-info.wustl.edu /News/2003/wills.html (463 words)

	Commonweal: WILLS'S BOOK IS VERY GOOD : It could have been terrific - "Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit" - Garry Wills
		Wills says that since most scholars agree that Peter almost certainly did not exercise episcopal functions and was therefore not a bishop in our sense, and since the people, and not the pope of Rome, chose their bishops, the modern priesthood is not rooted in the apostolic succession.
		Wills is right not to want to see the Eucharist removed from its communal context, and even the most conservative theologian would agree that a magical approach to the eucharistic elements is a corruption.
		Wills says that Augustine and Aquinas are ambivalent about the status of the fetus, and the church does not baptize fetuses; Q.E.D., the current arguments against abortion are overblown and excessive.
	www.findarticles.com /cf_0/m1252/14_127/65329627/p1/article.jhtml (986 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Davies: A Review Of Garry Wills's James Madison
		Wills attributes Madison's "dimmer moments" - meaning his two terms as president - to "two neglected qualities in Madison's makeup." The first, according to Wills, is "a certain naivete with regard to the rest of his fellow human beings." The second is "a certain provincialism with regard to the rest of the world."
		Wills argues that Madison was naive about affairs of the heart because he was hurt by the rejection of his first love.
		Wills does not reconcile his theory of Madisonian naivete with his own reportage, which strongly suggests that far from being naive in his staffing, Madison addressed, and ultimately overcame, some of the most challenging political realities he inherited.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /books/reviews/20020426_davies.html (1556 words)

	Garry Wills & The Duke
		Wills comes close to calling Wayne a draft dodger (though he was never drafted) because he did not enlist after Pearl Harbor -- after all, he was only thirty - four and married with four small children, the typical serviceman.
		Wills avers that by "'winning the World War II' in 1949 [in Sands ], Wayne was really waging the Cold War." In many respects Garry Wills is correct; however, he seems incapable of forgiving (as though there is anything to forgive) Wayne's crusade against Communism, so he disparages Wayne's credentials.
		Irrespective of Garry Wills' venom, and that of the liberal establishment, John Wayne remains America's favorite movie star eighteen years after his death.
	members.aol.com /ftr2k/ftr-061797.html (994 words)

	The Day the Enlightenment Went Out
		The moral zealots will, I predict, give some cause for dismay even to nonfundamentalist Republicans.
		It is not too early to start yearning back toward the Enlightenment.
		Garry Wills, an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University, is the author of " St.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/1104-25.htm (917 words)

	Garry Wills - Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wills buttresses his contention in the Appendix, "Augustine’s Theology of Sin." Here, he cites Augustine's City of God at length to demonstrate the parallel language used in the narration of the fall.
		Wills' other major goal in this translation, beyond positioning the work in its proper contexts, is to preserve Augustine’s Latin "rhetorical pyrotechnics." In doing so, he embraces word play and conjures Augustine’s Latin imagery into English equivalents.
		Wills' scholarly notes taken together with his rousing, vital translation insure that Augustine will be enjoyed by contemporary readers afresh both for his gifts as a writer and for the passion of his spirituality.
	youtheran.org /christian_books/search/?q=Garry+Wills&t=Author (1649 words)

	Orals Reading Notes: Reagan's America, Garry Wills
		With his vivid prose, keen dissection of cinema, and trademark turns of phrase, Wills then proceeds to follow "Dutch" Reagan through the various stages of his life, from birth to lifeguarding to Eureka College, on to sportscasting and Hollywood and the labor movement, and finally to GE pitchman, California governor, and GOP candidate for President.
		Along the way, the faults, mistruths, and lies that Wills exposes in Reagan's expressed vision of his own past are almost too numerous to mention.
		But, for Wills, to focus on Reagan's patent dishonesty is to miss the forest for the trees.
	www.kevincmurphy.com /wills.html (368 words)

	[EMLS 2.3 (December 1996: 11.1-13] Review of Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth.
		Wills also tinkers, without much justification, with the traditional dating of not only Macbeth and its "revisions" but other so-called "Powder Plays" to reinforce his conspiratorial case.
		He argues, by way of limping analogy, that references to the Plot would be as accessible to Shakespeare's audiences as references to the "grassy knoll" would be to JFK conspiracy buffs.
		Yet most readers will come away from this book still believing that the play means what it more or less says it means and what the vast majority of its critics have believed it to mean over four centuries.
	www.shu.ac.uk /emls/02-3/rev_sic1.html (1066 words)

	Powells Books - Review-a-Day - Why I Am a Catholic by Garry Wills, reviewed by The New Republic Online
		Wills has good reason to avoid Newman's challenge, since his book, which is a kind of apologia, inevitably provokes, at least in non-Catholic readers, a skepticism that is the close cousin to Newman's certitude: namely, why is Wills not a Protestant, and why is he not an atheist?
		Wills contends that the proof that the church is really defined by its laity rather than by its ruling elite is that most of the church has been quietly but firmly living the spirit of Vatican II since 1965, despite the efforts of Pope John Paul II to reverse that spirit.
		Wills is convincing, and he reminds us that, inevitably, churches are scrappy installations that seek to pass themselves off as authorless masterpieces.
	www.powells.com /review/2002_08_15 (3322 words)

	”Why am I Catholic?”- Garry Wills
		Wills said he believes strongly that there is nothing better then his baptism into the community of believers.
		Wills says the basic answer to all of the above questions is: As the church aged and grew, it picked up the social standards of the ages and cultures it lived in.
		Then Wills spoke for several minutes about a female Associate Director (she used to be called a Chaplain until the church got nervous) in his church community who has 8 children, was widowed and married again, and always has time for the community.
	www.stjoan.com /er2/catholic.htm (1386 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG: THE WORDS THAT REMADE AMERICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nearly a decade has passed since Garry Wills won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for "Lincoln at Gettysburg," but the magnitude of his achievement is measured by the continued interest which book lovers have lavished on this thoughtful and debate-stirring work of history.
		Wills situates the Gettysburg Address in the Greek Revivalism exemplified by Edward Everrett (the forgotten featured speaker at the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetary), as well as in the Transcendentalist movement of Theodore Parker and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
		Garry Wills has written a marvelous and meanigful book that adds luster and new life to a speech that most of us heard and did not fully appreciate in school.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671867423?v=glance (2223 words)

	Garry Wills
		Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills is the author of more than 20 widely read books on American culture and politics including Nixon Agonistes, Lincoln at Gettysburg, Venice: Lion City and Why I Am a Catholic.
		Wills is an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University.
		Wills is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
	www.wcve.org /ftr/guests/wills.html (103 words)

	'A Necessary Evil: A History Of American Distrust Of Government' by Garry Wills
		The subjects of Garry Wills’ 20 books have ranged from the Declaration of Independence to John Wayne to Richard Nixon to Abraham Lincoln and, most recently, St. Augustine.
		Moreover, the protean nature of Wills’ historical studies makes it difficult for some to place him in the political spectrum -- always a handy tool of the intelligentsia -- because “Nixon Agonistes” characterized him as a renegade from the conservative roster while “Inventing America” disappointed liberal interpretations of the wisdom of the so-called Founding Fathers.
		Wills’ language is vibrant and his rhetoric compelling as he deftly backgrounds the alienation of the American citizenry from its government.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19991031review358.asp (989 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Saint Augustine (Penguin Lives) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wills gives her the name Una, meaning one, for she was the one.
		Wills makes the good point that Saint Augustine may have had a love life that was torrid, but compared to our century, he and Una were like the college couple next door.
		Wills, in another work, said that he thought original sin said that the human race had a past, as people once talked of women having pasts.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670886106?v=glance (2242 words)

	Garry Wills \| AUTHOR CATALOG
		Garry Wills is an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University.
		Wills received a Ph.D. in classics from Yale and has had a distinguished career as an author, with books such as Lincoln at Gettysburg, John Wayne's America, a biography of St.
		Wills is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his articles appear frequently...
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=33353 (187 words)

	LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG: THE WORDS THAT REMADE AMERICA by Garry Wills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A former professor of Greek at Yale University, Wills painstakingly deconstructs Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and discovers heavy influence from the early Greeks (Pericles) and the 19th century Transcendentalists (Edward Everett).
		In his analysis of the address, Wills does something that I found to be very significant and that is to answer the charges of historians in the vein of Richard Hofstadter head on.
		Wills includes the text of the 2-hour oration of Edward Everett, the dedication's main speaker, whose work has often been diminished in relation to Lincoln's 3-minute speech.
	www.internetcross.com /item/0671867423 (598 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		He argues that celibacy was imposed on priests in the fourth century to compete with the authority of desert ascetics; that women were excluded from the priesthood based on Greek and Jewish notions of female inferiority and impurity; and that bans on contraception are not supported by Scripture.
		Wills decided to write ``Papal Sin'' while finishing a recent biography of St.
		Wills described Pope John Paul II as "an engaging, courageous person'' who has fostered openness toward other faiths.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/28/story_2852_1.html (610 words)

	To Keep and Bear Arms, Garry Wills
		Henry argues that federal arming of militias will either supplant or duplicate the states’ arming of their own forces (the arrangement under the Articles of Confederation and in colonial times).
		The very term "trained bands" means that the militia was not universal: only those with the time, opportunity, acceptance, and will to be exercised in training were actual "bandsmen," on whose discipline depended the effectiveness of the trained bands in precluding the need for a standing army.
		Madison confided to a friend: "It will kill the opposition everywhere." 59 Sweet-talking the militia was a small price to pay for such a coup— and it had as much impact on real life as the anti-quartering provisions that arose from the same motive.
	www.potowmack.org /garwills.html (9207 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Profile: Studs Terkel
		When people, especially foreigners, think of Chicago, they still tend to think of the stockyards, which are long gone, and the Louis Sullivan skyscrapers, which are not, the bosses and the gangsters, the history, the music and the sports stars.
		Garry Wills recalls: "Ida was extremely outgoing too.
		I remember the first time I met her, she said 'Oh, Garry, I think you and I once went to jail together'.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1360697,00.html (3312 words)

	On Reading Pope's Homer
		The modern reader will not readily perceive the degree of pause Pope was indicating with the onward flow of his lines.
		The thing that best distinguishes this from all other translations of Homer is that it alone equals the original in its ceaseless pour of verbal music.
		Often in these caesuraless lines he will span the midsection with a long word like the ironic refulgent in the line's smoky ruins.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/97/06/01/reviews/970601.01willst.html (1486 words)

	TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 16. Putnam's America. Garry Wills. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1995 Hal Salwen released a movie, Denise Calls Up, about people who conduct their lives on the telephone, living so entirely on that instrument that the characters who share their most intimate thoughts on the phone pass each other by, unrecognized, on the street.
		The fear that technology will somehow disconnect us from reality has haunted the modern world ever since Emerson claimed that the telegraph would have us nattering into space without real human contact, or since Ruskin said that railroads would rush us past nature and each other, unable to see them.
		This article may not be resold, reprinted, or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission from the author.
	www.prospect.org /print/V11/16/wills-g.html (2342 words)

	Bush's Secularist Triumph - The left apologizes for religious fanatics. The president fights them. By Christopher ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As far as I know, all religions and all churches are equally demented in their belief in divine intervention, divine intercession, or even the existence of the divine in the first place.
		I dare say that there will be a few domestic confrontations down the road, over everything from the Pledge of Allegiance to the display of Mosaic tablets in courtrooms and schools.
		I have spent all my life on the atheist side of this argument, and will brace for more of the same, but I somehow can't hear Robert Ingersoll * or Clarence Darrow being soft and cowardly and evasive if it came to a vicious theocratic challenge that daily threatens us from within and without.
	slate.msn.com /id/2109377 (1370 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Michael Moore disarms America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In late summer 2000, as the presidential campaign headed into the homestretch, Alfred A. Knopf released respected Emory University historian Michael Bellesiles' "Arming America," and the response from the cultural establishment was pure gush.
		Garry Wills'; 2000-word review in the New York Times nicely captures the establishment embrace of Bellesiles' thesis.
		Although guns are a "holy object" in American mythology, writes the happily re-educated Wills, "they were barely in existence" before the Civil War.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44942 (1197 words)

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