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	A Special Evening with Walter LaFeber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Walter LaFeber is one of Cornell's most dynamic and effective teachers and one of the nation's most distinguished historians of American foreign policy.
		LaFeber is highly regarded among his colleagues, and many historians and students of history have been influenced by his contributions to the field.
		LaFeber is the grandfather of Trevor and Matt Kahl.
	www.alumni.cornell.edu /lafeber/bio.htm (457 words)

	Walter LaFeber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walter LaFeber (born 1933 in Walkerton, Indiana) was a Marie Underhill Noll Professor and a Steven Weisse Presidential Teaching Fellow of History at Cornell University.
		LaFeber is past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
		LaFeber examined the effect of modern sports and communication empires in his book, Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism (1999, 2002), which analyzes the rise in popularity of basketball, Michael Jordan, Nike and cable satellite networks and their relation to globalization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_LaFeber (317 words)

	Amazon.ca: Clash: Books: Lafeber Walter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		LaFeber hints at these differences with references to a nineteenth century Japanese delegation's observations of American female rights, the 1924 Excluson Acts, the rise of the zaibatsu, the Japanese internment, Truman's bestial comments, and the postwar interaction of American military personnel with Japanese citizens.
		LaFeber describes the different political and economy backgrounds of America and Japan to explain the actions, and different views of capitalism and democracy of Japan and America.
		Lafeber is a mainstream writer on the us-japan relationship, which means that you can use it as a benchmark for comparation on different schools of thoughts.
	www.amazon.ca /Clash-Lafeber-Walter/dp/0393318370 (1512 words)

	Amazon.ca: Clash: Books: Walter Lafeber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		LaFeber also records how cultural divergences, in particular, vastly different approaches to governance, competition, and capitalism, have created constant friction over time.
		Lafeber explains the close -- and occasionally stormy -- relationship between the United States and Japan over the past 150 years.
		LaFeber suggests that this alignment is not inevitable.
	www.amazon.ca /Clash-Walter-Lafeber/dp/0393039501 (527 words)

	LaFeber Gives Last Lecture \| The Cornell Daily Sun
		Walter LaFeber, history, to a crowd of almost 3,000 Cornell alumni who convened on New York City's Beacon Theatre last night to hear the professor's final public lecture prior to his retirement later this spring.
		LaFeber, the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor, began his talk by thanking his wife, Sandy, as well as former Cornell presidents Dale Corson, Frank H.T. Rhodes, Rawlings and Jeffrey S. Lehman '77 for their contributions to Cornell.
		LaFeber concluded his remarks by mentioning the disillusionment of young American liberals, who felt that Wilson did not understand compromise and did not make the world safe for democracy as he had demanded when he spoke to Congress prior to entering WWI.
	www.cornelldailysun.com /node/17538 (584 words)

	Walter LaFeber retrospective
		For a moment, forget Walter LaFeber's invaluable contributions to American foreign relations history, his legendary skills in the lecture hall and the respect and devotion he has commanded from students, colleagues, administrators and government policy-makers alike.
		And it was LaFeber to whom Rawlings turned during the Sept. 11, 2001, commemoration on the Arts Quad on Sept. 14 (for LaFeber's comments see http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Sept01/LaFeber.remembrance.html).
		If LaFeber was one of Cornell's go-to guys in 1976 and 2001, he says Cornell alumni were his allies during the campus crisis of 1969, when armed fl students took over Willard Straight Hall.
	www.news.cornell.edu /stories/April06/LaFeber.retro.fac.html (1165 words)

	LaFeber's book "The Clash" wins Bancroft Prize
		Walter LaFeber, the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of American History, is the author of The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History, which recently received the Bancroft Prize in American History for 1998.
		LaFeber tried to read up on Japanese-American relations and found there was no single good book on the subject.
		Walter LaFeber was born in Walkerton, Ind., and came to Cornell as an assistant professor in 1959 at age 26, with a freshly minted Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/98/4.16.98/LaFeber.html (674 words)

	Book Review: Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism by Walter LaFeber
		LaFeber suggests that this soft power may not be so soft in the end of the day.
		LaFeber goes on to point out that the new global capitalism exemplified by Jordan-Knight-Murdoch-Turner had two main themes: the acquisition of fresh markets developed by huge amounts of capital that willingly absorbed the culture presented by the media.
		Walter LaFeber, Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1999), p.109.
	home.carolina.rr.com /msglobal/LaFeber.htm (1100 words)

	Cornell Press Releases
		LaFeber, Cornell professor, renowned author and one of the nation's preeminent historians on American foreign affairs, has inspired generations of Americans on a wide range of topics from the history of pre-Revolutionary times to the Cold War and even Michael Jordan.
		LaFeber, who joined Cornell's Department of History in 1959, has been the university's Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor since May 2002, when the professorship was established.
		"Walter LaFeber is one of Cornell's most precious resources," said Andrew Tisch (Cornell '71), co-chairman of Loews Corp. and chairman of the Loews Executive Committee.
	www.news.cornell.edu /pressoffice1/April06/LaFeberLecture.shtml (565 words)

	washingtonpost.com: The Sun and the Stars
		Now comes Walter LaFeber, a Cornell University diplomatic historian and the author of well-received volumes on the Cold War, the Panama Canal and the U.S. role in Central America, among other topics, with a book that aims to fill the gap.
		As LaFeber says, "few relationships have been as eventful." In less than a century and a half, the two nations have gone from hostility to friendship to rivalry to war to occupation to alliance to the current complex mixture of cooperation and confrontation.
		LaFeber's broad background in American diplomatic history serves the reader well, as he relates the interaction between Tokyo and Washington to other international developments.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/reviews/clash.htm (818 words)

	Prominent historian Walter LaFeber will deliver W. Bruce Lincoln Endowed Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		“Walter LaFeber is one of the truly great historians of American foreign relations,” said Kenton Clymer, chair of the NIU Department of History.
		LaFeber is the Andrew Tisch and James Tisch University Professor at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1959.
		LaFeber's NIU lecture will examine within historical context the current state of the “American empire” and executive authority.
	www.niu.edu /PubAffairs/RELEASES/2006/march/lafeber.shtml (480 words)

	Rambles: Walter LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898
		Anti-annexationist voices were muted by the late 1890s; the only debate was one of annexation vs. the establishment of protectorate status to the likes of Hawaii and the Philippines.
		LaFeber contends that economic issues largely explain the development of America's new imperial policy.
		It is rather easy to point to the Spanish-American War as the herald of America's transformation from isolationism to globalism, but LaFeber proves that the U.S. began to aggressively pursue a policy of commercial imperialism in the mid-1890s.
	www.rambles.net /lafeber_newemp63.html (576 words)

	Follow the Bouncing Ball
		LaFeber, who teaches history at Cornell, does not, for example, sufficiently appreciate the commercial vulnerabilities confronted by Nike and even by Jordan, now that his basketball career is over.
		Early in the book, LaFeber notes that it is only recently that advances in technology have created the ''power to spread information and culture'' to become ''more decentralized.'' He rightly observes that in the past, culture was dictated by elites.
		Because LaFeber does not concede this to be a possibility, he is forced to side against change, even though he explicitly acknowledges that the American values being transmitted are often more attractive to the common people than the traditional values of their own country.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/99/08/22/reviews/990822.22mandlet.html (1039 words)

	Critical Review of LaFeber's The Clash
		The answer is not that he is a stupid man or a bad historian-- although a number of the sources that he relies on are stupid, mendacious, or bought.
		Given Walter LaFeber's sources, he is like a man trying to reconstruct a redwood tree from detailed chemical analyses of its leaves.
		But to start, as Walter LaFeber does, with the relative power question--"who is on top?"--is to take a step on a path that can lead you far, far away from what is truly interesting and important.
	www.j-bradford-delong.net /Econ_Articles/Reviews/clash.html (4175 words)

	Walter LaFeber Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		This classic work, by the distinguished historian Walter LaFeber, presents his widely influential argument that economic causes were the primary forces propelling America to world power in the nineteenth century.
		Walter LaFeber brings a full range of historical tools to bear on American Diplomatic history--biographical sketches, a concise survey of world events that shaped U.S. policy, a use of American social and cultural history, and a full discussion of the rise of presidential power.
		In The Deadly Bet, distinguished historian Walter LaFeber explores the turbulent election of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history.
	www.alibris.co.uk /search/books/author/Walter_LaFeber (762 words)

	Amazon.com: Reviews for Inevitable Revolutions: Books: Walter LaFeber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lafeber devotes the last 2 chapters to an incisive and scathing description and analysis of the Reagan/Bush years.
		Lafeber meticulously goes through the ENTIRE history of Central America and shows that America's support of dictators and the frequent American intervention is not a "mistake".
		LaFeber justly attacks characters such as the Dulles brothers, who selfishly pursued their own agenda at the expense of the people in the region.
	www.amazon.com /Inevitable-Revolutions-Walter-LaFeber/dp/customer-reviews/0393302121 (2036 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Cold War
		Walter LaFeber argues the U.S. and Imperial Russia became rivals by 1900 over the development of Manchuria.
		(LaFeber 1991) Both Reagan and Britain's new prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, denounced the Soviet Union in ideological terms that rivaled that of the worst days of the Cold War in the late 1940s.
		(LaFeber, 314) However, Moscow's quagmire in Afghanistan was far more disastrous for the Soviets than Vietnam had been for the Americans because the conflict coincided with a period of internal decay and domestic crisis in the Soviet system.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Cold_War (7045 words)

	Walter LaFeber's last lecture (sort of)
		But to find in one person, Walter LaFeber, the greatest of scholars and of teachers, he continued -- that is a remarkable thing.
		Professor Walter LaFeber delivers his last public lecture April 25 to an audience of nearly 3,000 Cornell alumni and friends at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.
		And LaFeber, who has served under the administrations of half of Cornell's presidents, continued that tradition with his lecture (not really his last, he says) on the foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson, the power of Cornell alumni and his own gratitude to friends, colleagues and students.
	www.news.cornell.edu /stories/April06/LaFeber.lecture.lg.html (695 words)

	A Special Evening with Walter LaFeber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On April 25, more than 2,000 Cornellians gathered at the historic Beacon Theatre in Manhattan to reconnect with one another, reminisce about Cornell, and celebrate one of the nation’s preeminent historians on American foreign policy.
		The highlight of the evening was a lecture by Professor Walter LaFeber, his final lecture before he retires in June from a 46-year teaching career in Cornell’s History Department.
		With his trademark blend of drama and humor, Professor LaFeber discussed the modern history of American foreign policy and the expansion of democracy—a lecture delivered, as always, without the need for notes.
	www.alumni.cornell.edu /lafeber/index.htm (117 words)

	Walter LeFeber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Walter LaFeber of Cornell University is one of the nation’s most distinguished scholars in the history of American Foreign Relations.
		His America, Russia, and the Cold War has been one of the most highly regarded histories of that huge conflict for over 35 years and is now in its 9th revised edition.
		Professor LaFeber is also a highly popular and award-winning teacher at Cornell University, where he has been since 1959.
	www.uvm.edu /~presdent/DLS/walterlafeber.html (222 words)

	Amazon.fr : Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism: Livres en anglais: Walter LaFeber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		LaFeber transitions smoothly from Michael Jordan biography to socioeconomic commentary, first exploring Jordan as the great American hero, then turning a critical eye on Nike and its shoddy overseas labor practices.
		LaFeber's short (164 pages), lucid study gives readers a fresh perspective on the battle between capital and culture.
		To put Jordan in context, LaFeber links the history of basketball with America's century of economic dominance and writes entertainingly about the development of the sport into a multi-billion-dollar business with licensing spinoffs.
	www.amazon.fr /Michael-Jordan-New-Global-Capitalism/dp/0393047474 (663 words)

	Lafeber
		Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America.
		It is striking then that the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations referred to these countries in 1981 as "the most important place in the world for the United States." (5) The reason for this is explained by Walter LaFeber in Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America.
		I would recommend it as an important introduction to the problems of Central America (and to all of Latin America), as it was for me. And though it can be a bit overwhelming, it is nevertheless a valuable reference tool.
	vi.uh.edu /pages/buzzmat/lafeber.htm (1535 words)

	AlacraBlog: Walter LaFeber, Rock Star
		The finance department line-up was an all-star team: Robert Jarrow, Hal Bierman, Jerry Hass, Sy Smidt, George Oldfield, Richard Thaler and Andrew Rudd, who went on to be Chairman and CEO of Barra, Inc. as well as an Alacra investor.
		But as talented as I thought each of them were, the best professor I ever had was Walter LaFeber, who is about to retire as The Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor at Cornell.
		Then Professor LaFeber gave a 40 minute talk (without notes) that combined remembrances of students, colleagues and events from his 47 years at Cornell with a historical analysis, spanning over 200 years, on whether or not democracy travels well.
	www.alacrablog.com /alacrablog/2006/04/walter_lafeber_.html (505 words)

	Theresa R
		In his Cambridge History volume, LaFeber writes that United States foreign policy was merely an extension of domestic economic interests.
		Walter LaFeber, The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913, Volume II of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Cambridge University Press, NY: 1993.
		LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, NY: 1963.
	vi.uh.edu /pages/buzzmat/lafebercambridge.htm (1384 words)

	The Clash (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Walter LaFeber, one of America's leading historians, has written the first book to tell the entire story behind the disagreements, tensions, and skirmishes between Japan — a compact, homogenous, closely knit society terrified of disorder — and America — a sprawling, open-ended society that fears economic depression and continually seeks an international marketplace.
		Using both American and Japanese sources, LaFeber provides the history behind the vicissitudes of rearming Japan, the present-day tensions in U.S.-Japan trade talks, Japan's continuing importance in financing America's huge deficit, and both nations' drive to develop China — a shadow that has darkened American-Japanese relations from the beginning.
		Walter LaFeber is the author of eight other books, including Inevitable Revolutions and The American Age, both available in Norton paperback.
	www2.wwnorton.com /catalog/fall98/clash.htm (241 words)

	Cornell News: Walter LaFeber book
		LaFeber suggests that Jordan also symbolizes a rupture in the tradition of socially responsible public sports figures, and this new persona parallels the emergence of global high-tech communications and megabucks transnational interests.
		LaFeber implies that nations buying into the American way of life also enter into a Faustian contract.
		LaFeber raises the issue of taking political responsibility for commercial actions.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Aug99/LaFeber.fac.html (709 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, New and Expanded Edition - Walter Lafeber - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		LaFeber's examination of Nike and its particular dominion over the global marketplace is often scathing, while his fascinating mini-biography of Michael Jordan and the commercial history of basketball reveal much about American society.
		Lafeber really shows you how putting time and effort into something can really take you far in life.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0393323692-locale-us.html (1084 words)

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