Reporter Volume 26, No.24 April 13, 1995

By MARY BETH SPINA
News Bureau Staff
Garry Wills, noted scholar, journalist and classicist who has written
on such wide-ranging topics as the Catholic Church, Jack Ruby, race
relations and the nature of leadership, will speak at UB on Thursday,
April 27.
	His presentation at 8 p.m. in the Center for the Arts on the
North Campus is part of the Distinguished Speakers Series sponsored by
UB and the Don Davis Auto World Leadership Fund.
	Wills' 1993 book, "Lincoln at Gettysburg," won a Pulitzer
Prize. His "Nixon Agonistes," a study of Richard Nixon's political
career, was called "astonishing" in its deft combination of
"psychobiography" with "a provocative essay on political theory" by
John Leonard of The New York Times.
	Wills, who teaches at Northwestern University, also authored
"Under God," "Reagan's America," "The Kennedy Imprisonment" and
"Inventing America."
	He is a past recipient of the National Book Critics Circle
Award, the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University and the Peabody
Award. He holds a doctoral degree from Yale.
	Tickets are $5 for students; $12 for UB faculty, staff, Alumni
Association members and senior citizens, and $15 for general
admission.
	They may be purchased at The Book Revue, 1382 Hertel Ave.;
Buffalo State College Ticket Office/Student Union, 1300 Elmwood Ave.;
Don Davis Auto World Inc., 2277 Niagara Falls Blvd.; Fredonia State
College Central Box Office and New World Record, 512 Elmwood Ave.
	Tickets also may be purchased on the UB North Campus at the
Center for the Arts Ticket Office, 103 Center for the Arts; the UB
Ticket Office, 221 Student Union, and at the University Bookstore, 200
Lee Entrance. Seating at this event is limited.