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Head and Heart: A History of Christianity in America Paperback - 2008

by Garry Wills

Gary Wills has won significant acclaim for hisbestselling works of religion and history. Here, for the first time, hecombines both disciplines in a sweeping examination of Christianityin America throughout the last 400 years. Wills argues that the strugglenow as throughout our nation's history is between the headand the heart, reason and emotion, enlightenment and Evangelism.A landmark volume for anyone interested in either politics or religion,Head and Heart concludes that, while religion is a fertile andenduring force in American politics, the tension between the two isnecessary, inevitable, and unending.


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Gary Wills has won significant acclaim for his bestselling works of religion and history. Here, for the first time, he combines both disciplines in a sweeping examination of Christianity in America throughout the last 400 years. Wills argues that the struggle now?as throughout our nation?s history?is between the head and the heart, reason and emotion, enlightenment and Evangelism. A landmark volume for anyone interested in either politics or religion, Head and Heart concludes that, while religion is a fertile and enduring force in American politics, the tension between the two is necessary, inevitable, and unending.

From the publisher

Garry Wills is one of the most respected writers on religion today. He is the author of Saint Augustine’s Childhood, Saint Augustine’s Memory, and Saint Augustine’s Sin, the first three volumes in this series, as well as the Penguin Lives biography Saint Augustine. His other books include “Negro President”: Jefferson and the Slave Power, Why I Am a Catholic, Papal Sin, and Lincoln at Gettysburg, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

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  • Title Head and Heart: A History of Christianity in America
  • Author Garry Wills
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Pages 640
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008-09-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780143114079 / 0143114077
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.4 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 3.56 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code 277.3

Media reviews

' A major contribution to the national debate over separation ofchurch and state.'
Los Angeles Times

' Challenge[s] the conventional wisdom on many issues whilesynthesizing much of the finest recent scholarship.'
The New York Times Book Review

'Essential reading.'
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

About the author

Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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