Books by Walter LaFeber

This book focuses on the U.S. foreign and domestic policies, at points noting how the two are necessarily related. It includes brief analyses of developments elsewhere in the world to help students understand the foreign policy.

The new edition of this classic text for twentieth century or recent America courses covers the story of contemporary America from World War II into the second decade of the twenty-first century. This volume includes new coverage of the 2008-2012 Obama administration and the presidential and congressional elections of 2012.

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.

Walter LaFeber's timely analysis looks at the ways that triumphant capitalism, coupled with high-tech telecommunications, is conquering the nations of the world, one mind-one pair of feet-at a time.

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.

Updated and revised, this edition presents expanded information on the foreign policy of the Jefferson period. A final chapter covers the events of 1989 and after, into the Clinton administration.