Bücher von Walter LaFeber

Explores the turbulent election of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history. Looking through the eyes of the year's most important players including Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Hubert Humphrey, and more, the author shows the importance of domestic upheaval on the election.

Since their publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic. This second volume of the updated edition describes the dynamics of United States foreign policy from 1865 to 1913, the era when the United States became one of the four great world powers and the world's greatest economic power.

Winner of the Bancroft Prize.

The American Search for Opportunity traces the U.S. foreign policy between 1865 and 1913, linking these two historic trends by noting how the United States

Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica are five small countries, and yet no other part of the world is more important to the US.