Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer

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'ENTIRELY FASCINATING.' - The Washington Times WITH HIS DAZZLING STYLE and journalist's eye for detail, Garry Willis brings history to life. Whether writing about the civil rights movement, 1960s protests, or close-up studies of the people who have shaped our world, only bring together in one book Barry Goldwater, Daniel Berrigan, William Buckley, Jesse Jackson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, the Bushes and the Clintons, Beverly Sills, and John Waters. Here Wills shares, as only the best raconteurs can, stories of the fascinating people he has closely observed in more than fifty years of reporting. 'Garry Wills is not only one of the country's most distinguished intellectuals but also one of its most provocative.' - THE NEW YORK TIME BOOK REVIEW 'A completely captivating collections . . . Wills writes an intensely opinionated reevaluation of leaders he has encountered, autobiographical reminiscences, and insightful, mostly admiring essays on important people in his life.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)

Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

"Entirely fascinating." --The Washington Times "Garry Wills is not only one of the country's most distinguished intellectuals but also one of its most provacative." --The New York Times Book Review "A completely captivating collection . . . [Wills] writes an intensely opinionated reevaluation of leaders he has encountered, autobiographical reminiscences, and insightful, mostly admiring essays on imporant people in his life." --Publisher's Weekly (starred review)