A prolific historian and critic, Garry Wills won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award twice and was awarded the National Medal for the Humanities in 1998. His histories offer non-traditional, yet thoroughly researched and well-argued theories that one Chicago Tribune reviewer finds "boldly revisionist and intoxicatingly original." Bomb Power reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation by dramatically increasing the power of the American president and redefining the government as a national security state.

Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture