AJ Langguth

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Arthur John Langguth (born July 11, 1933 in Minneapolis , † September 1, 2014 in Los Angeles ) was an American author , journalist and historian .

Life

Langguth grew up as an only child. His parents owned a grocery store. He graduated from Harvard College in 1955 and then began writing for The Valley Times in Los Angeles. In the course of his journalistic career, he reported on the civil rights movement in the southern United States and the consequences of the Kennedy assassination , including the trials of Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald . From 1964 he was the New York Times Southeast Asia correspondent. From there he reported on the Vietnam War under the name Jack Langguth . In 1965 he became head of the Times’s Saigon office. As a professor at the University of Southern California's School of Journalism , he wrote several historical non-fiction books, including a study on the Vietnam War.

AJ Langguth remained unmarried and childless throughout his life. He died of respiratory failure in 2014 at the age of 81.

Works

Novels

  • Jesus Christs , Harper & Row, London 1968. New edition: Figueroa Press, Los Angeles 2003
  • Wedlock , Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1972
  • Marskman , Harper & Row, London 1974

Non-fiction

  • Macumba, White and Black Magic in Brazil , Harper & Row, London 1975
  • Hidden Terrors , Pantheon Books, New York 1978
  • Saki , A Life of Hector Hugh Munro , Simon & Schuster, New York 1981
  • A Noise of War: Caesar, Pompey, Octavian and the Struggle for Rome , Simon & Schuster, New York 1994
  • Our Vietnam: The War 1954–1975 , Simon & Schuster, New York 1981
  • Patriots, The Men Who Started the American Revolution , Simon & Schuster, New York 1988
  • Our Vietnam: The War 1954–1975 , Simon & Schuster, New York 2002
  • Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence , Simon & Schuster, New York 2006
  • Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil , Simon & Schuster, New York 2010
  • After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace , Simon & Schuster, New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-45161-732-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/aj-langguth-journalist-and-historian-dies/2014/09/02/abb0c9e4-32d7-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html?noredirect=on
  2. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Langguth, AJ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langguth, Arthur John (full name); Langguth, Jack (professional name as a journalist in Southeast Asia)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, journalist, and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2014
Place of death los Angeles