Wills shows
how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual
revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work
of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet
been broken.
Garry Wills,an
adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University, received
a Ph.D. in classics from Yale and has had a distinguished career
as an author, with books such as Lincoln at Gettysburg, John
Wayne's America, a biography of St. Augustine, and A Necessary
Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government. He has
received numerous accolades, including the 1993 Pulitzer Prize
for General Nonfiction (for Lincoln at Gettysburg) and the
NEH Presidential Medal.
