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词条 A. J. Langguth
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Arthur John Langguth[1] (July 11, 1933 – September 1, 2014), known as A. J. Langguth, was an American author, journalist and educator, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was Professor Emeritus of the Annenberg School for Communications School of Journalism at the University of Southern California.[1]

Langguth was the author of several dark, satirical novels, a biography of the English short story master Saki, and lively histories of the Trail of Tears, 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, using the byline "Jack Langguth".[2] He also 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 Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976,[3] and received the Freedom Forum Award, honoring the nation's top journalism educators, in 2001. He retired from active teaching at USC in 2003.

Langguth lived in Hollywood.[4]

Published works

  • How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace Simon & Schuster, 2014
  • Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War Simon & Schuster, 2010
  • The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence Simon & Schuster, 2006
  • The War 1954-1975 (Simon & Schuster, 2000), Touchstone Press (paper), 2002
  • 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)
  • 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 of Public Safety (OPS)

References

1. ^A.J. Langguth {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816111830/http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Communication%20and%20Journalism/LangguthA.aspx |date=August 16, 2012 }} at USC Annenberg Faculty site. Accessed 24 July 2012.
2. ^{{cite news|last=Langguth|first=Jack|date=20 February 1965|title=Khanh is back in power; his troops regain Saigon, putting down brief coup|newspaper=The New York Times|page=1|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/02/20/97185797.pdf}}
3. ^Arthur John Langguth {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103212906/http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=l&page=3 |date=January 3, 2013 }} Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, 1976, at gf.org/fellows. Accessed 24 July 2012.
4. ^http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-aj-langguth-20140902-story.html

External links

  • A.J. Langguth's personal website
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9 : 1933 births|2014 deaths|American male writers|Writers from Minneapolis|Historians of the Vietnam War|Guggenheim Fellows|Harvard College alumni|University of Southern California faculty|20th-century historians

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