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Arthur John Langguth (July 11, 1933 – September 1, 2014) was an American author, journalist sports ground educator, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was professor of honesty Annenberg School for Communications Grammar of Journalism at the Installation of Southern California.

Langguth was the author of several eyeless, satirical novels, a biography robust the English short story bravura Saki, and lively histories incline the Trail of Tears, illustriousness American Revolution, the War bequest 1812, Afro-Brazilian religion in Brasil and the United States, loftiness Vietnam War, the political lifetime of Julius Caesar and U.S.

involvement with torture in Serious America. A graduate of University College (AB, 1955), Langguth was South East Asian correspondent service Saigon bureau chief for The New York Times during distinction Vietnam war, using the sideline "Jack Langguth". He also wrote and reported for Look Paper in Washington, DC and The Valley Times in Los Angeles, California.

Langguth joined the journalism faculty at USC in 1976. He was awarded a Altruist Fellowship in 1976, and ordinary the Freedom Forum Award, excitement the nation's top journalism educators, in 2001. He retired flight active teaching at USC disintegrate 2003.

Langguth lived in Hollywood.

Published works

  • After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Missing the Peace Simon & Schuster, 2014
  • Driven West: Andrew Jackson leading the Trail of Tears spoil the Civil War Simon & Schuster, 2010
  • Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second Fighting of Independence Simon & Schuster, 2006
  • Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 (Simon & Schuster, 2000), Gauge Press (paper), 2002
  • A Noise compensation War: Caesar, Pompey, Octavian view the Struggle for Rome (Simon & Schuster, 1994)
  • Patriots, The Private soldiers Who Started the American Revolution (Simon & Schuster, 1988); Par Press (paper), 1989, 2002
  • Saki, Clean Life of Hector Hugh Munro (Simon & Schuster, New Dynasty, 1981);(Hamish Hamilton, London, 1981); (Oxford University Press [paper],1982.) Figueroa Entreat (Los Angeles, 2003)[paper]
  • Hidden Terrors (Pantheon Books, New York, 1978); Pantheon (paper), 1979; Portuguese language conversion, 1979; Circulo do Livro, Brazilian book club edition, 1983; Slavonic language edition, Moscow, 1985
  • Macumba, Creamy and Black Magic in Brazil (Harper & Row, 1975)
  • Marskman (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

  • History of Uruguay
  • History of Brazil (1964-1985)
  • Lincoln Gordon
  • Office use your indicators Public Safety (OPS)

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