Lead Time : A Journalist's Education

by Wills, Garry

• ISBN13: 9780618446902
• ISBN10: 0618446907
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-14
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

The essential Garry Wills, Lead Time offers a provocative view of a pivotal era in America from one of our most esteemed historians. In this collection of essays, written between 1968 and 1982, Wills explores American culture, politics, and mores, and demonstrates his astute and always interesting approach to his subjects, including Vietnam, Richard Nixon, Muhammad Ali, Pope John Paul II, and Ronald Reagan. Newly reissued with a new preface, this is a must-read from "a mind that likes to range beyond the usual boundaries of periodical journalism" (New York Times).

Author Biography

GARRY WILLS, a distinguished historian and critic, is the author of numerous books, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg, Saint Augustine, and the best-selling Why I Am a Catholic.
A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he has won many awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is a history professor emeritus at Northwestern University.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Mariner Edition	ix
Introduction: After the Fact	xiii
I. Years of Turmoil
War Protest: Commune	3	(8)
War Protest: Jail	11	(18)
Dr. King on the Case	29	(24)
II. Spies
``McCarthyism''	53	(3)
Alger Hiss	56	(6)
Hiss and Nixon	62	(17)
III. Watergate
Summer of '74	79	(17)
Sideshows	96	(12)
Dunces	108	(9)
IV. Politicians
The Senate	117	(7)
The House	124	(4)
Bobby Baker	128	(4)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan	132	(8)
George Wallace	140	(16)
Burt Lance	156	(10)
Jerry Brown	166	(15)
V. Conventions
The Best Reporter	181	(5)
Miniconvention, '74	186	(9)
Democrats, '76	195	(10)
Republicans, '76	205	(4)
Miniconvention, '78	209	(12)
VI. Presidents
Truman	221	(12)
Eisenhower	233	(3)
Johnson	236	(5)
Ford	241	(9)
Carter	250	(7)
Reagan	257	(18)
VII. Religion
Born-Again Watergater	275	(10)
Stained-Glass Watergate	285	(8)
Pope John Paul II	293	(7)
Dorothy Day	300	(4)
The Pope in America	304	(16)
The Devil	320	(7)
Why?	327	(4)
VIII. Athletes
Muhammad Ali	331	(8)
Shirley Verrett	339	(7)
Raymond Berry	346	(16)
Beverly Sills	362	(19)
Appendix: Boxing: A Palinode	381	(10)
Index	391