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A. J. Langguth, Author . Simon & Schuster $30 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2618-9
Langguth follows his popular Patriots
with a fast-paced account of the War of 1812. Ostensibly a fight over the impressment of American sailors by the British, this little-understood three-year conflict was really about who controlled the middle of
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A.J. Langguth, Simon & Schuster, $30 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4859-1
USC professor of journalism Langguth (Union, 1812) maintains America's first civil war occurred during the 1830s when Andrew Jackson expelled Indian tribes from the Deep South. Recounting the events from 1825 through the Civil War (which forced the...
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A. J. Langguth, Author Simon & Schuster $35 (768p) ISBN 978-0-684-81202-1
The New York Times Vietnam correspondent and sometime Saigon bureau chief during the war, Langguth has since written eight books (including Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution) and now teaches journalism at USC's Annenberg School...
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A. J. Langguth, Author Simon & Schuster $22.45 (640p) ISBN 978-0-671-52375-6
Working with contemporary letters and public statements, Langguth, who heads the journalism department at the University of Southern California, produces a closely knit and continuously interesting drama of the American Revolution by following the...
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