A. J. Langguth

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Arthur John Langguth [1] (July 11, 1933 ? September 1, 2014) was an American author, journalist and educator, born in Minneapolis , Minnesota . He was professor of the Annenberg School for Communications School of Journalism at the University of Southern California . [2] Langguth was the author of several dark, satirical novels, a biography of the English short story master Saki , and lively histories of the Trail of Tears , the American Revolution , the War of 1812 , Afro-Brazilian religion in Brazil and the United States, the Vietnam War , the political life of Julius Caesar and U.S. involvement with torture in Latin America. A graduate of Harvard College (AB, 1955), Langguth was South East Asian correspondent and Saigon bureau chief for The New York Times during the Vietnam war, using the byline "Jack Langguth". [3] He also wrote and reported for Look Magazine in Washington, DC and The Valley Times in Los Angeles, California. Langguth joined the journalism faculty at USC in 1976. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976, [1] and received the Freedom Forum Award, honoring the nation's top journalism educators, in 2001. He retired from active teaching at USC in 2003.

Langguth lived in Hollywood. [4]

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  1. ^ a b Arthur John Langguth Archived January 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, 1976, at gf.org/fellows. Accessed 24 July 2012.
  2. ^ A.J. Langguth Archived August 16, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at USC Annenberg Faculty site. Accessed 24 July 2012.
  3. ^ Langguth, Jack (20 February 1965). "Khanh is back in power; his troops regain Saigon, putting down brief coup" (PDF) . The New York Times . p. 1.
  4. ^ "A.J. Langguth dies at 81; foreign correspondent and historian of wars" . Los Angeles Times . 2014-09-02 . Retrieved 2020-07-18 .

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