China and Japan: A Matter of Options

Walter LaFeber is chairman of the History Department at Cornell University. He is the author of America, Russia and the Cold War (New York: John Wiley, 1967); John Quincy Adams and American Continental Empire (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1965); and The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1963).