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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.

Wedlock

"Langguth has brilliantly described what many sensed in the sixties: the inadequacy of the state of wedlock...The most evident of Langguth's talents is his control as a writer. It is complete. And it prepares us for the intelligence and perception displayed on every page. Reading this novelist is a delightful experience."--Russell W. Schoch, Jr., Los Angeles Times.