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Audiobooks Narrated by Garry Wills
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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 - perhaps because he is not a rival, a competitor, or a threat. Sometimes this made him the prey of con men, like conspiratorialist Mark Lane or civil rights leader James Bevel. At other times it led to close friendship with such people as William F. Buckley, Jr., or singer Beverly Sills. The result is the most personal book Wills has ever written.
With his dazzling style and journalist's eye for detail, Wills brings history to life, whether it's the civil rights movement; the protests against the Vietnam War; the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton; or the set of Oliver Stone's Nixon. Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times.
A remarkable achievement a learned yet eminently readable and provocative exploration of the four small books that reveal most of what's known about the life and death of Jesus. ( Los Angeles Times ) In his New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant and What Paul Meant, Garry Wills offers tour-de-force interpretations of Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Here Wills turns his remarkable gift for biblical analysis to the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Wills examines the goals, methods, and styles of the evangelists and how these shaped the gospels' messages. Hailed as 'one of the most intellectually interesting and doctrinally heterodox Christians writing today' (The New York Times Book Review), Wills guides readers through the maze of meanings within these foundational texts, revealing their essential Christian truths. From the Trade Paperback edition.
In a time of national debate about what the Bible says on social issues, a distinguished historian and writer on religion examines what Jesus actually said about how we should live our lives—and how he chose to live his own.
Whose side is Jesus really on? Whose views do his teachings support? Should we aspire to be "Christlike"—meaning homeless, subversive, scandalous, in constant danger of being kidnapped or arrested, and keeping company with the less-than respectable?
Garry Wills points out that Jesus' acts were meant to show that He is not just like us; that he has higher rights and powers. To read the gospels in the spirit with which they were written, it is not enough to ask what Jesus did or said—or would do. We must ask what Jesus meant by his deeds and words.
This is not a scholarly book, but a devotional one, written with intelligence and humility. It is a profession of faith—reasoning faith, and reasonable; what St. Anselm called "faith out on quest to know." In questing, Wills illuminates a much more complex, compelling, and controversial figure than the one we hear so much about in sound bites today.
Throughout history, Christians have debated Paul's influence in the church. In this masterly analysis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills chronicles Paul's tremendous influence on the first explosion of Christian belief, the controversy surrounding Paul through the centuries, and the meaning of his words.
In "Negro President" the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills explores a pivotal moment in American history through the lens of Thomas Jefferson and the now largely forgotten Timothy Pickering, and "prods readers to appreciate essential aspects of our distressed but well-intentioned representative democracy" (Chicago Tribune). In 1800 Jefferson won the presidential election with Electoral College votes derived from the three-fifths representation of slaves - slaves who could not vote but were still partially counted as citizens. Moving beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Hemings, Wills instead probes the heart of Jefferson's presidency and political life, revealing how the might of the slave states remained a concern behind his most important policies and decisions. In an eye-opening, ingeniously argued exposE, Wills restores Timothy Pickering and the Federalists' dramatic struggle to our understanding of Jefferson, the creation of the new nation, and the evolution of our representative democracy.
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 public figure of his time. In Wills's hands, Waynes story is tranformed into a compelling narrative about the intersection of popular entertainment and political realities in mid-twentieth-century America.
