A. J. Langguth
A.J. Langguth (born Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 11, 1933) is an American author, journalist and educator. He is Professor Emeritus of the Annenberg School for Communications School of Journalism at the University of Southern California.[1] Langguth is the author of several dark, satirical novels, a biography of the English short story master Saki, and lively histories of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Vietnam War, the political life of Julius Caesar and U.S. involvement with torture in Latin America. A graduate of Harvard College (MA, 1955), Langguth was South East Asian correspondent and Saigon bureau chief for The New York Times during the Vietnam war, and wrote and reported for Look Magazine in Washington, DC and The Valley Times in Los Angeles, California. Langguth joined the journalism faculty at USC in 1976. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1975, and received the The Freedom Forum Award, honoring the nation's top journalism educators, in 2001. He retired from active teaching at USC in 2003.
Langguth lives in Los Angeles. As of 2009[update] he was completing a historical treatment of Andrew Jackson and the "Trail of Tears forced relocation of the Native Americans, to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2010.
Published works
- Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence Simon & Schuster, 2006
- Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 (Simon & Schuster, 2000), Touchstone Press (paper), 2002
- A Noise of War: Caesar, Pompey, Octavian and the Struggle for Rome (Simon & Schuster, 1994
- Patriots, The Men Who Started the American Revolution (Simon & Schuster, 1988); Touchstone Press (paper), 1989, 2002
- Saki, A Life of Hector Hugh Munro (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1981);(Hamish Hamilton, London, 1981); (Oxford University Press [paper],1982.) Figueroa Press (Los Angeles, 2003)[paper]
- Hidden Terrors (Pantheon Books, New York, 1978); Pantheon (paper), 1979; Portuguese language translation, 1979; Circulo do Livro, Brazilian book club edition, 1983; Russian language edition, Moscow, 1985
- Macumba, White and Black Magic in Brazil (Harper & Row, 1975)
- Marksman (fiction) (Harper & Row, 1974)
- Wedlock (fiction) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1972); Ballantine Books [paper], 1973
- Jesus Christs (fiction) (Harper & Row, 1968); (Victor Gollancz, London, 1968); Ballantine Books [paper], 1969; Figueroa Press (Los Angeles, 2003)[paper]
See also
References
- ^ [1] USC Annenberg Faculty site
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