Outside Looking In, Garry Wills
Outside Looking In, Garry Wills
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Outside Looking In
Adventures of an Observer

Author: Garry Wills

Narrator: Garry Wills

Unabridged: 5 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/14/2010

Synopsis

A captivating memoir from the incomparable Garry Wills, "one of the country's most distinguished intellectuals" (The New York Times Book Review).

Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times. With his dazzling style and journalist's eye for detail, Garry Wills 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 he could bring together in one book Barry Goldwater, Daniel Berrigan, Beverly Sills, Richard Nixon, and John Waters. Wills shares, as only the best raconteurs can, stories of the fascinating people he has closely observed during more than 50 years of reporting.

About The Author

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elliot on June 16, 2011

Garry Wills is superman: classics prof. by day, prolific Pulitzer winning journalist and historian, also by day. He is my favorite conservative to read—conservative by early 60s standards, i.e. liberal Catholic—reading him I’m confident that I’m in the company of a learned, decent and trustworthy in......more

Goodreads review by Faith on October 31, 2010

For all bibliophiles and those passionate about politics and journalism.......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on March 05, 2024

A delightful, rich, interesting, intelligent memoir. Mostly comprising of events witnessed and persons known. A rich medley of subjects, ranging from John Waters, Studs Terkel , Hillary Clinton to William F. Buckley are recounted in warm, fascinating portrayals. Most interesting is the authors’ anti......more

Goodreads review by John on October 17, 2017

An irresistable gallery of first-rate landscapes -- Memphis after the assassination of Martin Luther King; urban America in the late 60s; Washington during one of the anti-war protests -- and portraits of people we thought we knew enough about, William F. Buckley Jr. and Beverly Sills, and people we......more

Goodreads review by Janet on November 29, 2024

Really a memoir and reminiscences about important people in his life. Published in 2010, this book has a much simpler prose style than the last Garry Wills book I read which had been published in 1972. As one would expect, Wills is honest about his impressions of people: Nixon was one of the most in......more

Quotes

"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)

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