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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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Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975

Winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius J. Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book, the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal for Nonfiction, and the PEN Center West Award for Best Research Nonfiction.

"A magisterial narrative history. Brilliantly recaptures the hopes, illusions, fears, suspicions, frustrations and disappointments of these tumultuous years."--George C. Herring, Los Angeles Times.

"The best book yet on our perverse crusade to make Vietnam safe for democracy."--Lloyd C. Gardner, The Washington Post Book World (Book World Rave 2000)

"A history that will be admired and studied by scholars and journalists, (and) a collection of character portraits and relationships tht beats most bestselling fiction."--Brad Knickerbocker, The Christian Science Monitor.

"Compulsively readable and thoroughly researched."--Marc Leepson, The VVA Veteran.

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