A. J Langguth
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
A gripping narrative of the second and final war of independence that secured the nation's permanence and established its claim to the entire continent, by the author of the enormously successful and acclaimed Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution.This dramatic account of the War of 1812 fills a surprising gap in the popular literature of the nation's formative years. It is this war, followed closely on the War of Independence, that...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruction, which set back black Americans and isolated the South for a century.
With Lincoln's assassination, his "team of rivals," in Doris Kearns Goodwin's phrase, was left adrift. President Andrew Johnson, a former slave owner from Tennessee, was challenged by Northern Congressmen, Radical Republicans led...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
University of Southern California professor of journalism Langguth maintains America's first civil war occurred during the 1830s when Andrew Jackson expelled Indian tribes from the Deep South and created a bitter North-South conflict. Cherokees "were driven out of Georgia at bayonet point by U.S. Army forces led by General Winfield Scott. At the center of the story are the American statesmen of the day -- Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun--...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
"Laos was never really ours after 1954. South Vietnam is and wants to be."
-- McGeorge Bundy, Washington, D.C., 1961
"The Americans thought that Vietnam was a war. We knew that Vietnam was our country."
-- Luu Doan Huynh, Hanoi, 1999
Twenty-five years after its end, with many records and archives newly opened and many participants now willing to testify, historian and journalist A. J. Langguth has written an authoritative, news-making account...