Garry Wills
Professor Emeritus of History, Northwestern University
Garry Wills (PhD Yale, 1961) is an adjunct professor and cultural historian whose many books include penetrating studies of George Washington, Richard Nixon, the Kennedy family, Ronald Reagan, and religion in America. His numerous prizes include the Merle Curti Award of the American Historical Association, the National Book Critics Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and an honorary doctorate from the College of the Holy Cross.
His new book, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State, was published in January 2010 by Penguin. It has been called a "meticulously researched, readable, and well-timed treatise on the state of the U.S. government."