the Second Amendment refers to the right to keep and bear arms in a military context only, rather than justifying private ownership and use of guns. Furthermore, he said the military context did not entail the right of individuals to overthrow the government of the United States: Public appraisal The New York Times literary critic John Leonard said in 1970 that Wills "reads like a combination of H. L. Mencken, John Locke and Albert Camus." The Roman Catholic journalist John L. Allen Jr. considers Wills to be "perhaps the most distinguished Catholic intellectual in America over the last 50 years" (). Martin Gardner in "The Strange Case of Garry Wills" states there is a "mystery and strangeness that hovers like a gray fog over everything Wills has written about his faith". Honors 1978: Inventing America—National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction (co-winner, with Facts of Life by Maureen Howard) 1979: Inventing America—Merle Curti Award 1982: Honorary degree of L.H.D. by the College of the Holy Cross 1992: Lincoln at Gettysburg—National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 1993: Lincoln at Gettysburg—Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1995: Honorary degree from Bates College 1998: National Medal for the Humanities 2001: The Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement 2003: Inducted to the American Philosophical Society 2004: St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates Inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2006 in the area of Communication and Education. Works Chesterton: Man and Mask, Doubleday, 1961. Animals of the Bible (1962) Politics and Catholic Freedom (1964) Roman Culture: Weapons and the Man (1966), The Second Civil War: Arming for Armageddon (1968) Jack Ruby (1968), Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-made Man (1970, 1979), Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion (1972), Values Americans Live By (1973), Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (1978), Confessions of a Conservative (1979), At Button's (1979), Explaining America: The Federalist (1981), The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power (1982), Lead Time: A Journalist's Education (1983), Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment (1984), Reagan's America: Innocents at Home (1987), Under God: Religion and American Politics (1990), Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (1992), Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders (1994), Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth (1995), John Wayne's America: The Politics