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Adventures of an Observer
Viking Adult
October 2010
On Sale: October 14, 2010
208 pages
ISBN: 0670022144
EAN: 9780670022144
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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.
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