作者  (1933年八月30日)

出生地：	美國印第安納州
 世界歷史 World History： 《美國、俄國和冷戰》 閱讀沃爾特·拉費伯爾 Walter Lafeber在历史大观的作品!!!

　　沃爾特•拉費伯爾 當代美國著名歷史學家。出生於美國印第安納州，先後獲斯坦福大學碩士、威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校博士。1968年以來在康奈爾大學任歷史學講座教授。主要著作有：《美國的時代：1750年以來美國對外政策的國內和國外方面》，《不可避免的革命：美國在中美洲》，《巴拿馬運河：歷史視野中的危機》，《新帝國：對美國擴張的解釋，1865-1998》，《邁剋爾•喬丹和新全球資本主義》，《死亡的賭註：林登•約翰遜、越南和1968年大選》。他還是《劍橋美國對外關係史》第2捲《美國對機會的尋求》（有中譯本）的作者。他所著《衝突：歷史上的美日關係》（1997年）獲得班剋羅夫特奬和霍利奬。

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.