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.
- ISBN10 0393026299
- ISBN13 9780393026290
- Publish Date 17 February 1989
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 9 November 1995
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 780
- Language English