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Selected Works

History

Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
James Madison leads an unprepared nation into a struggle that will establish the United States as a major world power and stake its claim to the entire continent.

"Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution."
"A breathtaking portrait of boldness, courage...and sheer youthful vitality."--Newsweek

"Hidden Terrors: The Truth About U. S. Police Operations in Latin America."
"A powerful indictment of what the United States helped to bring about in this hemisphere."--The New York Times.

"A Noise of War: Caesar, Pompey, Octavian and the Struggle for Rome."
A nonfiction examination of the fall of the Roman Republic--political and military history from 81 B.C. to 30 B.C. (Simon&Schuster, 1994)

Fiction

Jesus Christs
"A novel of the death of God, with many resurrections and many Christs." Harper& Row, 1968.

Wedlock
"Wedlock is very good, full of sharp insight and throwaway wit...Langguth writes a sternly brilliant prose, and his characters live."--Elizabeth Janeway, 1972

Marksman
"This quick-running, exciting novel poses a number of disturbing questions in a spare prose that gives the book great bite." Harper&Row, 1974

Occult

Macumba: White and Black Magic in Brazil
"Despite his total immersion in the rituals, Langguth asked the skeptical questions that allowed him to produce here the first objective book on Brazil's Macumba in English."

Literary Biography

"Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro, with six short stories never before collected." (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1981)
"A Saki biography at last, and surely a definitive one...An achievement.--Emlyn Williams.

Letters

"Norman Corwin's Letters," edited by A. J. Langguth (Barricade Books, 1994)
More than six decades of letters from the author of "On a Note of Triumph," often called the poet of the Golden Age of Radio.

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"Norman Corwin's Letters," edited by A. J. Langguth (Barricade Books, 1994)

From A. J. Langguth's Introduction:
"During the past half-century, an occasional voice has protested that Norman Corwin's America has never existed, that his nation and its people were only myths. These letters prove the skeptics wrong. Throughout a long life, Corwin has celebrated a country he found splendid in its idealism and valor. We know that Norman Corwin's America exists because Jefferson, Lincoln, Thoreau and Whitman have lived there before him."