Garry Wills

On the Brian Lehrer Show, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills talks about his book Why Priests and asks if Christianity would be better off without them.

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and journalist Garry Wills discusses his life, career, and how remaining an outsider has let him maintain contacts and friendships across the ideological spectrum. In his latest book, Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer, he writes frankly about deeply personal issues, including his devotion to his wife, his troubled relationship with his father, his strong Catholic faith, and gives descriptions and impressions of presidents and other important figures he has dealt with over five decades.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed American democracy, increasing the power of the presidency and redefining the government as a national security state. In Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State, he draws a line from the Manhattan Project to the ...