作者  (1933年8月30日)

出生地：	美国印第安纳州
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　　沃尔特•拉费伯尔 当代美国著名历史学家。出生于美国印第安纳州，先后获斯坦福大学硕士、威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校博士。1968年以来在康奈尔大学任历史学讲座教授。主要著作有：《美国的时代：1750年以来美国对外政策的国内和国外方面》，《不可避免的革命：美国在中美洲》，《巴拿马运河：历史视野中的危机》，《新帝国：对美国扩张的解释，1865-1998》，《迈克尔•乔丹和新全球资本主义》，《死亡的赌注：林登•约翰逊、越南和1968年大选》。他还是《剑桥美国对外关系史》第2卷《美国对机会的寻求》（有中译本）的作者。他所著《冲突：历史上的美日关系》（1997年）获得班克罗夫特奖和霍利奖。

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. He is one of the United States? most distinguished historians, a revisionist, of the nation?s Foreign Relations.

The son of a grocer, he received his BA from Hanover College in 1955, his MA from Stanford University in 1956 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1959, after which Cornell hired him.

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. He has also served on numerous scholarly editorial boards and the Advisory Committee to the Historical Division of the Department of State.

His The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 (1963, 1998) received the Albert J. Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association; Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (1984, 1992) received the Gustavus Meyers Prize, and The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History (1997) received both the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Ellis Hawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians.

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.

LaFeber is known for providing Williams-like but more subtle and widely read revisionist histories of the Cold War in his books.

At the end of the Spring 2006 semester, LaFeber retired after forty-six years on the Cornell faculty. To mark the end of his career, he gave one final lecture on April 25 to an over 3,000 person gathering of former students, Cornell alumni, and colleagues at the Beacon Theater in New York City.

LaFeber and his wife Sandra have two children, Scott and Suzanne.