New Releases by Garry Wills

1. Madison, James 1751-1836 2. Presidents United States - Bopgra[ju 3. Imoted States - Politics and government - 1809 -1817.

The author blames American''s long-standing mistrust of government on a misreading of history, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the Founding Fathers.

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 interdependence, not self-interest, lay at the foundation of society. "No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has . . . The results are little short of astonishing" (Edmund S. Morgan New York Review of Books ).

The pivotal volume of the Christian philosopher''s seminal work is translated and interpreted by Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills.

Durante siglos, los escritos de Agustin de Hipona han conmovido y fascinado a los lectores. Con la mirada fresca y atenta de un escritor cuyos propios analisis le han merecido un Premio Pulitzer, Garry Wills estudia a este conocido obispo y pensador del siglo IV.San Agustin nos descubre tanto al gran filosofo de la condicion humana como al hombre corriente, y cuestiona muchas interpretaciones erroneas de su vida, entre ellas la de los excesos de juventud.

Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur''an Meant, coming fall 2017. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg and Papal Sin captures the many dimensions of one of the twentieth century''s most influential writers. Part of a literary circle that included H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Hillaire Belloc, and Max Beerbohm, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote essays of social criticism for contemporary journals, literary criticism (including notable books on Browning, Dickens, and Shaw), and works of theology and religious argument, but may have been best known for his Father Brown mysteries. Chesterton''s interest in Catholic Christianity, first expressed in Orthodoxy, led to his conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1922. His classic Saint Francis of Assisi and the equally acclaimed Saint Thomas Aquinas confirmed his reputation as a writer with the rare ability to simultaneously entertain, inform, and enlighten readers. This revised edition of Garry Wills''s finely crafted biography includes updates to the text and a new Introduction by the author.

An exploration of the papacy challenges the culture of deceit that surrounds the Vatican in modern times, which prevents the church from facing its own history.

The early chapters of the "Confessions" are a source of information on one of the most important relationships in Saint Augustine''s life. This book is largely about his, and Wills argues that this is fundamental to the understanding of Augustine''s character, theology and worldview.

Durante séculos, os escritos de Agostinho comoveram e fascinaram seus leitores. COm o olhar perspicaz de um escritor cuja análise intelectual conquistou o Prêmio Pulitzer, Garry Wills examina a vida do famoso bispo e pensador fecundo cujo embasamento em filosofia clássica concebeu sua interpretação das doutrinas cristãs da mente e do corpo, sabedoria e Deus. ''Santo Agostinho'' explora a figura tanto do grande pensador da condição humana, quanto do homem comum que se pôs a escrever. NEsta biografia breve, Garry Wills desafia várias interpretações enganosas - entre elas o mito dos excessos sexuais cometidos por Agostinho na juventude. UM texto revelador que ilumina tanto o homem quanto a época.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lincoln at Gettysburg" brings his eloquence, his wit, and his on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn portrait of John Wayne, a true 20th-century hero. "Deeply satisfying at every level".--Michael Stern, "San Francisco Chronicle". of photos.

This book reinterprets Macbeth by returning it to the context of its own time, recreating the theological and political crises of Shakespeare''s era.

Examination of the Gettysburg Address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame breathing new life into the words and revealing much about the President.

James Wilson was an important but now obscure draftsman of the Constitution. Garry Wills is a journalist and historian fascinated by what went on in the minds of our founders. The two men meet in an imaginary diaglogue across the centuries.

"By investigating the interest Washington''s contemporaries had in him, and by playing that interest off against some of the perennial problems of political morality and the uses of power, Wills gives us a fresh perspective on our first President. Wills shows how Washington solved the problem of charismatic leadership by embodying the eighteenth-century Enlightenment idea: the creation of a revived classical republic. People responded to such leadership in verse, sermons, song, paintings, and sculpture. This book differs from other historical studies of political power by its use of evidence from a wide range of sources..." -- Dust jacket.

Includes index.

Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur''an Meant, coming fall 2017. Now with a new introduction--award-winning historian Garry Wills''s definitive analysis of the Federalist Papers In 1787 and 1788, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison published what remains perhaps the greatest example of political journalism in the English language--the Federalist Papers. Written to urge ratification of the Constitution, the eighty-five essays--trenchant in thought and graceful in expression--defended the Constitution not merely as a theoretical statement but as a practical instrument of rule. Now updated with a new introduction, Garry Wills''s classic study subjects these essays to rigorous analysis, illuminating, as only he can, their significance in the development of the philosophy on which our government is based.

Gregory Skipwith belongs to a club of eighteenth-century scholars called At Buttons. The club and the New York Public Library where Gregory works should have protected him from violence, but it doesn''t. He finds himself confronted with murder and violence even in these dim places. When he and his strange crew of scholars try to cope with a conspiracy of conspiratorialists in New Orleans these reach their climax.

"You all know me, I''m Jack Ruby." That''s what the killer shouted when police grabbed him a split second after he had pumped a bullet into the stomach of Lee Oswald. Who was Jack Ruby? Madman? Superpatriot? Conspirator? Two top writers achieve a gripping portrait of the complex and contradictory character of Jack Ruby - a man who grew up in an immigrant home with a drunken father and an insane mother, who climbed out of the ghetto to become the owner of a popular Dallas nightclub. The authors let his friends and employees describe the Jack Ruby they knew. He was a punch-happy scrapper who fought before he thought because "I might lose my nerve." Ruby could "cuss straight on like saying his prayers" but didn''t allow dirty talk in front of his lady strippers. He could fire an employee seventeen times and pay for her kid''s operation. A bachelor, he "respected" his fiancee of twelve years too much to marry her. He sought the company of cops, newsmen, anyone he thought important. Jack Ruby had many acquaintances but his only real friends were his dogs. Living in the fringe-society of hucksters and hustlers, Jack Ruby longed to be a big man in Dallas. Until the day he died he had a childlike awe of "class," respectability, and the law. Wills and Demaris get completely inside the mind of this complex man. They recreate the day Jack Ruby woke, got an SOS call from one of his girls, shaved, dressed, said good-bye to his dogs, drove downtown, parked his car illegally, walked over to the crowd and shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. The reader understands. He did it "for Jackie and the kids" and because he was Jack Ruby. With the same graphic immediacy the authors describe those first stunned minutes of disbelief after the murder, Ruby''s incomprehension of his position, his grotesque camaraderie with his old friends on the Dallas police force ("You all know me..."). The authors move jail to courtroom, catching the carnival atmosphere of Ruby''s trial--with brilliant portraits of defense attorney Belli and prosecutor Alexander--and finally to the hospital room where Ruby died. This book reveals Jack Ruby as no other has. It is a story of a marked life, of a man whose precarious sanity was destroyed by the events he created--who spent his last mortal strength trying to persuade the world that he did his duty as an American, a Texan, and a Jew when he killed the man who killed Kennedy.--From jacket flap