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Also by Garry Wills:

Why Priests?, February 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Outside Looking In, October 2010
Hardcover
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State, February 2010
Hardcover
What the Gospels Meant, February 2008
Hardcover
Head and Heart, October 2007
Hardcover
Henry Adams and the Making of America, September 2005
Hardcover

OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
By: Garry Wills

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.

Media Buzz

Diane Rehm Show - NPR - October 27, 2010
Colbert Report - October 26, 2010
All Things Considered - October 19, 2010