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    Saint Augustine

    Written by Garry Wills

    Narrated by Alexander Adams

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    For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his interpretation of Christian doctrine. Saint Augustine explores Augustine's thought as well as the everyday man who set pen to parchment. It challenges many misconceptions, including those regarding his early sexual excesses. It portrays Augustine as being "peripheral in his day, a provincial on the margins of classical culture" who didn't even know Greek. Here is a lively and incisive portrait of a man who helped shape Western thinking.

    "Wills's agile mind matches the agility of Saint Augustine. He presents his subject with candor and with empathy."-New York Times Book Review
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 21, 1999
    ISBN9781415910566
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    Saint Augustine
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    Garry Wills

    <p>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.</p>

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    • 4/5
      There are as of this writing 33 Amazon reviews of this book,mostly by experts, and they are varied as to its place as a short introduction which is what Wills intended. I really like the book because it takes one of the most complex periods in European and North African history...Rome was dying, but they didn't know it,Christianity was already well esta lished, individuals such as St.A moved easily around the sea. I think it is a good introduction and leads the reader to want to learn more.
    • 3/5
      Well as usual, I wanted to finish this on Christmas Day/Night, but unfortunately as usual.... I didn't, so I finished it this morning.

      This was a good look at Augustine's life, but not quite what I was expecting. I was expecting far more of a biography and a history of Augustine, and instead got kind of a break-down of some parts of his life, some thoughts on his writings, and a scholarly look at why Garry Wills version of Augustine thoughts is different (and since he's writing this, better - in his opinion) than those of previous scholars of Augustine. Its a short book, only about 150 pages, but its a slow read due to the writing style, and how the quotes are presented. Long - page long paragraphs that always tend to end in quotes also makes it harder to read and stop since it all kind of runs together, and with no clear chapters (only pauses for location changes, when Augustine moved from Thagaste to Carthage to Rome, to Hippo, etc.) it also makes it harder to read and go like at work or at home with children running around.