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Title: Shrill and superficial
Review: I've been a Garry Wills fan, until recently. Wills is a good writer, and he CAN be a good historian. But when he deals with issues pertaining to his own religion, there certainly appears to be a big blind spot. The visceral replaces the analytical. Arguments give way to screeds. And political correctness displaces objectivity. Even for those of us who agree with his positions against the Roman Pontiff (I'm not Catholic), it's clear that this book should have been thoroughly overhauled, if not deep-sixed, instead of being published as is.
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