Reagan's America: Innocents at Home

Garry Wills

Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, 1987 - Biography & Autobiography - 472 pages

Ronald Reagan achieved magical accord with the American people, attuning them to his moral vision of a nation made up of optimistic individualists, tough yet God-fearing, blessed with a special destiny. In Reagan's America, Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian Garry Wills seeks to understand Reagan's appeal through understanding his audience, the Americans who found in him everything they wanted to believe about themselves. An authoritative biography and a fascinating cultural history, Reagan's America reveals how this savvy, charismatic leader restored a nation's fading sense of innocence and faith in itself.

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In 1987, Garry Wills, now a Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator on American history and religion and Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University, wrote this social history of then-President Ronald ...

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This book gives full credit to the positive role Ronald Reagan's father and mother played in his growing up. Hislo father actually had an initial career in the department store business, it was his ...

Contents

• INTRODUCTION 1: 5
• HUCK FINNS WORLD chapter 1 Jack: 7
• Nelle: 16

About the 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Reagan's America: Innocents at Home
• Author: Garry Wills
• Publisher: Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, 1987
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 20, 2008
• ISBN: 0385182864, 9780385182867
• Length: 472 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State