Venice: Lion City
Wills presents a new way of relating the history of the city through its art and, in turn, illuminates the art through the city's history. Illustrated with more than 130 works of art, 30 in full color.
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- ISBN-13
- 9780671047641
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryShortlisted(2001)
Other awarded books from Garry Wills
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (1992)1 win · 20 score
- Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (2017)1 win · 16 score
- Attica: The Official Report of the New York State Special Commission on Attica0 wins · 4 score
- Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion (1974)0 wins · 4 score
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