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Outside Looking In

Adventures of an Observer

Adventures of an Observer

Adventures of an Observer

By Garry Wills

By Garry Wills

By Garry Wills

By Garry Wills

By Garry Wills
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By Garry Wills
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Sep 27, 2011 | ISBN 9780143119890

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Oct 14, 2010 | ISBN 9781101444412

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    About Outside Looking In

    A captivating memoir from the incomparable Garry Wills, "one of the country’s most distinguished intellectuals" (The New York Times Book Review)

    Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times. With his dazzling style and journalist’s eye for detail, Garry Wills brings history to life. Whether writing about the civil rights movement, 1960s protests, or close-up studies of the people who have shaped our world, only he could bring together in one book Barry Goldwater, Daniel Berrigan, Beverly Sills, Richard Nixon, and John Waters. Wills shares, as only the best raconteurs can, stories of the fascinating people he has closely observed during more than fifty years of reporting.

    About Outside Looking In

    “One of the country’s most distinguished intellectuals [and] one of its most provocative.”
    –The New York Times

    Look 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- 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.

    About Outside Looking In

    A captivating memoir from the incomparable Garry Wills, “one of the country’s most distinguished intellectuals” (The New York Times Book Review).

    Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times. With his dazzling style and journalist’s eye for detail, Garry Wills brings history to life. Whether writing about the civil rights movement, 1960s protests, or close-up studies of the people who have shaped our world, only he could bring together in one book Barry Goldwater, Daniel Berrigan, Beverly Sills, Richard Nixon, and John Waters. Wills shares, as only the best raconteurs can, stories of the fascinating people he has closely observed during more than 50 years of reporting.

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    Also by Garry Wills

    What the Qur'an Meant
    Inventing America
    The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis
    Why Priests?
    Verdi's Shakespeare
    See all books by Garry Wills

    Also by Garry Wills

    What the Qur'an Meant
    Inventing America
    The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis
    Why Priests?
    Verdi's Shakespeare
    See all books by Garry Wills

    About Garry Wills

    Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University.… More about Garry Wills

    About Garry Wills

    Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University.… More about Garry Wills

    About Garry Wills

    Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University.… More about Garry Wills

    Product Details

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Politics

    Paperback | $24.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Sep 27, 2011 | 208 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143119890

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Politics

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Oct 14, 2010 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9781101444412

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Politics | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $15.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Oct 14, 2010 | 309 Minutes | ISBN 9781101195901

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    Praise

    “Entirely fascinating.” 
    –The Washington Times

    “Garry Wills is not only one of the country’s most distinguished intellectuals but also one of its most provacative.”
    –The New York Times Book Review

    “A completely captivating collection . . . [Wills] writes an intensely opinionated reevaluation of leaders he has encountered, autobiographical reminiscences, and insightful, mostly admiring essays on imporant people in his life.”
    –Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)

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