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    Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 14, 2010
    ISBN9781101195901
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      Garry speaks to me, Catholic, Baltimore, sticking around for my funeral, an observer, not a participant, my wife is the only one, but, ... I was expecting _much_ more.... A collection of connections, the people whose lives he intersected with. Some better than others. Wills isn't afraid to name names. His great friendship with Bill Buckley, for instance. Natalie, his wife saved him from being absorbed. Studs Terkel, otoh, is every bit the mensh. As an unapologetic liberal, me that is, without saying so out loud, Wills may be wishing his liberal credits were more clear-cut.