Garry Wills Audio & Video

There is perhaps no more compelling example of the power of words than Lincoln's Gettysburg Address...

Wills has analyzed the legendary speech in a new book called "Lincoln At Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America." He says that, speaking for only three minutes that day, Lincoln changed the history of American political thought.

New York Times Best Seller: A "remarkable and evenhanded study of Ronald Reagan" (The New York Times) from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg.

In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon's infamous "enemies list...

The Kennedy Imprisonment - A Meditation on Power by Garry Wills...

From acclaimed historian Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg, a celebrated re-appraisal of the meaning and the source of inspiration of The Declaration of Independence, based on a reading of Jefferson's original draft document.

The eternal conundrum about James Madison - a key framer of the U.S. Constitution...

From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills comes this groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy and why we have been in a state of war alert ever since.

Catholic philosopher and historian Garry Wills argues that revision, not conservatism, is the historical norm of the Roman Catholic Church.

Garry Wills, an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University, talked about his life and work and responded to telephone calls, faxes, and electronic mail from viewers.