America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2002, Updated: Updated [Paperback]

Walter LaFeber (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072849037 | ISBN-13: 978-0072849035 | Publication Date: December 23, 2002 | Edition: 9

Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text by a prominent historian focuses on U.S./Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. The updated ninth edition covers the events of September 11, 2001, and analyzes the new world that began that day.

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About the Author

Walter Lafeber was born and raised in Indiana, attended Hanover College, and then received his Master of Arts degree from Stanford University and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His books include The American Age: U.S. Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad Since 1750 (2nd ed., 1994); Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (2nd ed., 1993); The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective (2nd ed., 1989); and The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1865-1898 (1963). He also wrote The American Search for Opportunity, Volume II of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations (1994). Since 1968, Professor Lafeber has been the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of American History at Cornell University, and in 1994, he was named a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 9 edition (December 23, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072849037
• ISBN-13: 978-0072849035
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent up to date analysis of cold war, June 23, 2004

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Brigitte Palmer (Colchester UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2002, Updated: Updated (Paperback)

a really useful book for all students of cold war history and politics. This an updated edition, the first edition was produced in 1966. extensively updated with a new chapter dealing with the post September 11 world. Well written with a web link for access to copies of all primary documents.

11 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Unrepentant revisionist`s version of the Cold War, August 27, 2007

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Maris A. Mantenieks "WWII history student" (Medina, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2002, Updated: Updated (Paperback)

Walter LaFeber is a product of the Wisconsin University`s radical left history department. The uninitiated should read John E. Hayes'
"In Denial". Despite evidence to the contrary, LaFeber foists the guilt of the origins of the Cold War upon the United State`s "imperialism" and minimizes Stalin`s complicity. There are many more unbiased books available on this to read.