1997
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize. One of America's leading historians tells the entire story behind the disagreements, tensions, and skirmishes between Japan—a compact, homogeneous, closely-knit society terrified of disorder—and America—a sprawling, open-ended society that fears economic depression and continually seeks an international marketplace. Photos.
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Walter F. LaFeber
Author · 13 books
One of the foremost scholars of American foreign policy, Walter Fredrick LaFeber was the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University. Previous to that he served as the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell.
