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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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Jesus Christs

In March, 2003, Figueroa Press reprinted the 1968 Harper and Row edition of "Jesus Christs." To order that paperback edition, please call (213) 740 BOOK or contact the USC Bookstore at http:/​/​www-bookstore.usc.edu.

The following are reviews of the original edition:

"In probing wit and Zen-like, glancing--even farcical insight, Mr. Langguth provides an uttterly original and continously provoking succession of angles on his ever-shifting subject...The most rewarding English-language attempt" (to treat Christ in fiction.)--Reynolds Prince, The New York Times Book Review, May 4, 1997.

"Langguth's book is both original in form and exciting in content, beautifully written and philosophically wise. It is wit at its most serious."--William Gass.

"Just as we had become accustomed to the fact that the only first-rate religious fiction today is being written by Norman Mailer, this mad novel comes along to surprise and enchant us. A comic religious novel? A mixture of Joseph Heller and Nikos Kazantzakis in the form of Pascal's Pensees? Impossible, but it has happened...It is either one of the canniest rejections of the Christian enterprise in our time, or one of the subtlest expressions of admiration for Jesus. Or both. Or neither. There can be few readers it will not infuriate, delight and help."--William Hamilton, co-author, Radical Theology and the Death of God, The New Republic, April 6, 1968.

"A masterpiece."--James Bentley, New Christian (London), August 22, 1968.

"A rare tour de force...an engrossing narrative...a work of great originality and technical accomplishment."--Wallace Hildick, The Listener (London), August 22, 1968.