Garry Wills

Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, as well as the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

Wills has written nearly forty books and since 1973 has been a frequent reviewer for the New York Review of Books. He joined the faculty of the history department at Northwestern University in 1980, where he is currently an Emeritus Professor of History.

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    America today is capable of terrific intolerance about smoking, or toxic waste that threatens trout. But only a deeply confused society is more concerned about protecting lungs than minds, trout than black women.
    Garry Wills (b. 1934)