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Selected Works

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

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)

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.

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.

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."

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Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

"Never again after this masterly work will 1812 be a forgotten war. Langguth brilliantly restores the war to its rightful place in American history while at the same time giving us a rousing good story that holds our attention from beginning to end."
--Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of "Team of Rivals"

"A. J. Langguth is incapable of writing a dull sentence. Here he brings rousingly to life the perilous, fascinating years between America's first and second wars of independence. With an artist's flair, a scholar's rigor, and the narrative genius of a born storyteller, he gives us presidents and their wives, Redcoats and frontier Caesars, heroes and scalawags--an unforgettable portrait gallery of young America."
--Richard Norton Smith, author of "Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation"

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