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  1. Garry Wills _ What the Qur'an Meant: And Why

    Talmud, the Halakha, the Qur'an, the Bible, the {Sikh} Granth Sahib-as "true and accurate in all particulars."4 How could a dying religious attitude, scheduled for elimination by the end of the twentieth century-already, as it were, being measured for its coffin-dance away from the dirge with renewed vitality? More pointedly, how could this escape
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  2. Garry Wills _ Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of

    The tapes are the real man-mean, vindictive, panicky, striking first in anticipation of being struck, trying to lift his own friable self-esteem by shoving others down. Murray Kempton said he wanted to leave no fingerprints, but he went about it in such a way as to leave his fingerprints all over his story. Nixon's real tragedy is that he never had the stature to be a tragic hero. He is the stuff of sad {almost heartbreaking} comedy.
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  3. Garry Wills _ The Kennedy Imprisonment: A

    You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man. -GILBERT CHESTERTON
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  4. Garry Wills _ A Necessary Evil: A History of

    Inefficiency is to be our safeguard against despotism.
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  5. Garry Wills _ Augustine's Confessions: A

    Unfettered inquisitiveness, it is clear, teaches better than do intimidating assignments.
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  6. Garry Wills _ Why Priests?

    God initiates the salvation of man to express the Father's love, not a punitive deflecting of the Father's anger.
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  7. Garry Wills _ Bomb Power: The Modern

    Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm.
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  8. Garry Wills _ Bomb Power: The Modern

    Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality principle.
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