A Necessary Evil (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Garry Wills
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Philosophy and current affairs
- Time of Work: The course of American history up to 1999
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: History, Ideology, United States or Americans, Philosophy or philosophers, Mythology or myths, Politics, Revolutionaries, Political science, Politicians, Government, Constitutional law, Armies
- Locales: United States
In A Necessary Evil, Garry Wills does his best to debunk popular myths, slogans, and ideologies undermining the public’s trust in American government. In doing so, he takes on revered articles of faith held by the Left as well as the Right, contemporary “liberals” as well as “conservatives.” He also takes issue with prominent figures in American letters and various political icons, from some of the Founding Fathers down to the late twentieth century. The result is a provocative, well-argued book which adds significantly to themes developed in Wills’s twenty-one...
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