Garry Wills
Garry Wills
Garry Wills is a prolific Pulitzer Prize–winning American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 May 1934
CountryUnited States of America
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abstract breathed catholics contrast converts doctrine line toe
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
subject
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
loneliness artist creating
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.
peers constitution framers
As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer.
expression ideas criticism
The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.
ambition thoughtful ideas
Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.
leadership goal followers
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.