The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad 1750 to the Present (2 Volumes in 1)

In this leading text, Walter LaFeber offers a comprehensive history of American foreign relations from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. His narrative account features several major themes: the connections between U.S. foreign policy and domestic politics; the impact of American economic development on foreign policy interests; popular culture, particularly film, as a filter for public opinion on American commitments abroad; the roles of public opinion, leadership, and bureaucracy in the formation of policy.

In the Second Edition, LaFeber has revised nearly every chapter in the book. In the early chapters, there is more attention to the origins of foreign policy institutions and practices, including precedents for the executive agreement, and new discussions of U.S. relations with Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The more recent chapters feature fresh insights of Potsdam, the origins of the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis--all based on new evidence drawn from Soviet archives. The new edition amply covers the momentous events that brought the Cold War to an end and thrust the United States into the uncetain position of the world's only superpower.

• The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
• Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, Volume 2 (Major Problems in American History Series)
• Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, Volume I: To 1920 (Major Problems in American History Series)
• For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
• American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)
• Entangling Relations
• From Isolation to War: 1931-1941 (The American History Series)
• Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama
• Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
• Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era (The Richard Ullman Lectures)