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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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"A Noise of War: Caesar, Pompey, Octavian and the Struggle for Rome."

Chapter One begins:
Gaius Julius Caesar stood before Sulla, the dictator of Rome, and weighed a decision that could cost him his life. Sulla had seized the city by force and was bending the political opposition to his will. To ensure the loyalty of Rome's young aristocrats, he had ordered several of them to leave their wives and marry women he had selected. Most had obeyed, and now he was demanding that the 19-year-old Caesar sue for divorce and take a more politically acceptable bride.
Sulla was not pleased with Caesar's appearance. He didn't care for the modish fringe on the sleeve of his toga or the way he let his belt hang loose at the waist. The young man looked as though he fussed too much over his appearance. Roman men had been clean-shaven for many years, but Caesar went further and had the barber pluck out his stray facial hairs.
The result of all that attention was a stylish, handsome young man--tall for a Roman at five feet, eight inches--with pale skin, prominent cheekbones, wide-set dark eyes and a long, straight nose.

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