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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.
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LaFeber is known for providing Williams-like but more subtle and widely read revisionist histories of the Cold War in his books.
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Historian Walter LaFeber criticized the book Manufacturing Consent for overstating its case, in particular with regards to reporting on Nicaragua and not adequately explaining how a powerful propaganda system would let military aid to the Contra rebels be blocked.
* 1962 – Walter LaFeber for The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898
LaFeber and American
* Walter LaFeber ( b. 1933 ), noted historian of American foreign relations, was born in Walkerton.
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Walter LaFeber ( born August 30, 1933 in Walkerton, Indiana ) was a Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the Department of History at Cornell University.
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* LaFeber, Walter, " The Rise and Fall of Colin Powell and the Powell Doctrine ," Political Science Quarterly, 124 ( Spring 2009 ), 71 – 93.
* Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America.
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* Walter LaFeber, 20th century U. S.
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According to historian Walter LaFeber, Truman was known to approach defense budgetary requests in the abstract, without regard to defense response requirements in the event of conflicts with potential enemies.
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Herman responded in a letter by stating that the system was not " all powerful " and that LaFeber did not address their main point regarding Nicaragua.
Discussion of these questions has centered in large part on the works of William Appleman Williams, Walter LaFeber, and John Lewis Gaddis.
According to Williams and later writers influenced by his work — such as Walter LaFeber, author of the popular survey text America, Russia, and the Cold War ( recently updated in 2002 )— U. S. policymakers shared an overarching concern with maintaining capitalism domestically.
Williams and LaFeber also complicated the assumption that Soviet leaders were committed to postwar " expansionism.
* Walter LaFeber, historian at Cornell University.
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.
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But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.
A chief characteristic of experience in the mode of causal efficacy is one of derivation from the past.
Paula's older brother is Edward Steichen, a talented artist and, for the past half-century, one of the world's eminent photographers.
Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.
Social process is always anchored in past predisposition ; ;
The natural and primary aesthetic attitude is to enjoy contemporary art, to despise and dislike the art of the recent past, and wholly to ignore everything else ''.
The continuities, contrasts, and similarities discernible when past and present are surveyed together are inexhaustible and the one is often understood through the other.
Criticism is as old as literary art and we can set the stage for our study of three moderns if we see how certain critics in the past have dealt with the ethical aspects of literature.
that their remote past is as discontinuous with their present selves, as lacking in any conscious likeness to their mature personality, as the self of a butterfly may be imagined discontinuous with that of the caterpillar it once was.
From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.
That time is now past and the Atlantic nations, if they are to survive, must develop a full-fledged community, and they must also look beyond the frontiers of `` Western civilization '' toward a world-wide `` concert of free nations ''.
Traditional crewel embroidery which seems to be appearing more frequently this fall than in the past few years is still available in this country.
For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.
His proposal is opposed to that of Richard Nixon, Governor Rockefeller, past chairmen Strauss and McCone of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Edward Teller and those others now enjoying their hour of triumph in the exacerbation of the cold war.
and it is to be noted also that confidence should grow from remembering that great men often appeared in the past to turn local catastrophe into future good for all mankind.
As the ungoverned days of the automobile and the airplane are long since relegated to the past, so is the carefree attitude toward what a boatman may and may not do ; ;
A stream which has all of its watershed within a national forest or other lands under good conservation practices is less likely to be affected by pollution than one passing through unrestricted logging or past an industrial area.
It is pertinent to ask the question: Has the long upswing of interest rates during the past 15 years just about run its course, and are we now entering a period in which both capital market forces and Federal policies will produce a prolonged decline of interest rates??
It is probably more effective than the expanded scholarship programs of the past decade, because the scholarship programs mainly aided the students with the best academic records ( who were usually middle-class ), and these students tended to use the scholarship funds to go to more expensive colleges.
It is a commonplace that to the degree these special preserves of past philosophic hunting grounds establish an empirical content and suitable methodological criteria, they move away from philosophy as such.
For what concerns all scientific disciplines is precisely that which can be captured for the rational, i.e., for the scientific determination of what in past ages was considered ultimate and irrational.
The ninth century was in its artistic work `` the spiritually freest and most self-sufficient between past and future '', and the loving skill spent by its artists upon their products is a testimonial to their sense that what they were doing was important and was appreciated.
Your past history is resplendent with the fruits of the intellect.
A quiet but sturdy theme, somewhat folklike in character, appears whenever the old monk speaks of the history he is recording or of his own past life:
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