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A.J. Langguth's Books
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Driven WestBy the author of the acclaimed Patriots and Union: 1812, a gripping history of the gathering storm in the decades preceding the Civil War.Read More
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Union 1812By the author of the acclaimed Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution, a gripping narrative that tells the story of the second and...Read More -
Our VietnamWinner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius J. Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book, the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal for Nonfiction,...Read More
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Freespace, August 10, 2011
...Several bloggers are contributing lists at the request of the NAS. Here are my lists, edited to allow only one book per author on each list, and not in any order.Fiction/Literature1. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad2. Steel Beach by John Varley3. The...
War in Context, August 8, 2011
...underwrote regimes of torture that prefigured our own treatment of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. (See, for instance, A.J. Langguth, Hidden Terrors [Pantheon, 1979], on how the U.S. spread torture methods to Brazil and Uruguay.) Dismantling the...
Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Poli, May 25, 2011
...Brief Book Review of A.J. Langguth’s Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War 25 May 2011 by Mark R. Cheathem I recently completed a review of A.J...
