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A. J. Langguth

Biography

A. J. Langguth

A. J. Langguth (1933–2014) was the author of eight books of nonfiction and three novels. AFTER LINCOLN marks his fourth book in a series that began in 1988 with PATRIOTS: The Men Who Started the American Revolution. He served as a Saigon bureau chief for the New York Times, after covering the Civil Rights movement for the newspaper. Langguth taught for three decades at the University of Southern California and retired in 2003 as emeritus professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

A. J. Langguth

Books by A. J. Langguth

After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace
by A. J. Langguth - History, Nonfiction, Politics

With Lincoln’s assassination, his “team of rivals” was left adrift. President Andrew Johnson, a former slave owner from Tennessee, was challenged by Radical Republicans led by Thaddeus Stephens and Charles Sumner, who wanted to punish the defeated South. By the 1868 election, united Republicans nominated Ulysses Grant, Lincoln's winning Union general. His attempts to reconcile Southerners with the Union and to quash the rising Ku Klux Klan were undercut by post-war greed and corruption. Reconstruction died unofficially in 1887 when Republican Rutherford Hayes joined with the Democrats in a deal that removed the last federal troops from South Carolina and Louisiana.