Reagan's America

Innocents at Home

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Author:

Wills, Garry

Read by:

Thomas, James Edward

ISBN:

978-1-7997-7333-7

Publication Date:

Jan 2020

Publisher:

Brilliance Publishing, Inc.

Imprint:

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Book Format:

CD-Audio

List Price:

USD $29.99

Book Description:

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.

Updated with a new preface by the author, this captivating biography of America's 40th president recounts Ronald Reagan's life - from his poverty-stricken Illinois childhood to his acting career to his California governorship to his role as...
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Book Details

Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.25 x 6.75 x 0.68 Inches
Book Weight:	0.17 Pounds

Author Biography

Wills, Garry (Author)

Garry Wills, 1934 - Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1934. Wills received a B.A. from St. Louis University in 1957, an M.A. from Xavier University of Cincinnati in 1958, an M.A. (1959) and a Ph.D. (1961) in classics from Yale. Wills was a junior fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies from 1961-62, an associate professor of classics and adjunct professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University from 1962-80.

Wills was the first Washington Irving Professor of Modern American History and Literature at Union College, and was also a Regents Professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Silliman Seminarist at Yale, Christian Gauss Lecturer at Princeton, W.W. Cook Lecturer at the University of Michigan Law School, Hubert Humphrey Seminarist at Macalester College, Welch Professor of American Studies at Notre Dame University and Henry R. Luce Professor of American Culture and Public Policy at Northwestern University (1980-88). Wills is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his articles appear frequently in The New York Review of Books.

Wills is the author of "Lincoln at Gettysburg," which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1993 and the NEH Presidential Medal, "John Wayne's America," "A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government" and "The Kennedy Imprisonment." Other awards received by Wills include the National Book Critics Award, the Merle Curti Award of the organization of American Historians, the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale Graduate School, the Harold Washington Book Award and the Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, which was for writing and narrating the 1988 "Frontline" documentary "The Candidates."

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