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Selected Works

History
James Madison leads an unprepared nation into a struggle that will establish the United States as a major world power and stake its claim to the entire continent.
"A breathtaking portrait of boldness, courage...and sheer youthful vitality."--Newsweek
"A powerful indictment of what the United States helped to bring about in this hemisphere."--The New York Times.
A nonfiction examination of the fall of the Roman Republic--political and military history from 81 B.C. to 30 B.C. (Simon&Schuster, 1994)
Fiction
"A novel of the death of God, with many resurrections and many Christs." Harper& Row, 1968.
"Wedlock is very good, full of sharp insight and throwaway wit...Langguth writes a sternly brilliant prose, and his characters live."--Elizabeth Janeway, 1972
"This quick-running, exciting novel poses a number of disturbing questions in a spare prose that gives the book great bite." Harper&Row, 1974
Occult
"Despite his total immersion in the rituals, Langguth asked the skeptical questions that allowed him to produce here the first objective book on Brazil's Macumba in English."
Literary Biography
"A Saki biography at last, and surely a definitive one...An achievement.--Emlyn Williams.
Letters
More than six decades of letters from the author of "On a Note of Triumph," often called the poet of the Golden Age of Radio.

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"Hidden Terrors: The Truth About U. S. Police Operations in Latin America."

"A masterful synthesis of compelling narrative and exhaustive investigative reporting on an international scale."--Los Angeles Times

"There is a ring of truth to this book--unpleasant truth. Mr. Langguth tells an ugly story, one from which many lessons remain to be learned. It is to be hoped that we are still capable of learning them.--The New York Times.

"Langguth is a novelist as well as a newspaperman, and he must have realized before he began this book that he could not simply lay out the facts of our complicity in police terror in Latin America: he had to find a way to make us as angry as he is about the harm our government has done, or his book, like so many other exposes, might be used to further inflate our old boast that the USA is a wonderfully free, democratic society to allow such publications.
"He chose to tell flatly, laconically, as if it were an early Sinclair Lewis novel, the story of Dan Mitrione, the American police adviser in Uruguay kidnapped and executed in 1970 by the Tupamaros, and to alternate this small-town Midwesterner's exerience with what was going on in the more glamorous and various worlds of Washington, the CIA, the Brazilian and Uruguayan military commands, and the revolutionary underground. He succeeds in creating interest and suspense, and in making one share his moral repulsion; indeed, one wishes, as naively as when one was young, that this book would make something happen."--Jose Yglesias, The Nation.

"Langguth, an experienced reporter, has used the kidnap-murder of Indiana's Dan Mitrione as a frame to present evidence for U. S. complicity in undermining democracy and destroying human rights in Brazil and Uruguay...One of the CIA figures in the book, Philip Agee, concluded that all secrecy is wrong. Whether or not the reader agrees, 'Hidden Terrors' should affect him profoundly."--Rose Styron.

"'Hidden Terrors' is a fascinating and disturbing piece of investigative journalism...Let us hope that this book will contribute to an already growing awareness that every individual and every government shares an international responsibility for the protection of fundamental human rights."--Martin Ennals, Secretary General, Amnesty International.