In the Eagle's Shadow by Kyle Longley
All too often undergraduate readers find themselves overwhelmed by textbooks on the history of American foreign relations - the scholarly tone leaving them frustrated, the onslaught of names, events, policies, and counter-policies leaving them unable to realise important continuities in a multidimensional story. It is with the student reader in mind that this second edition offers a concise narrative history that in straight-forward language relates the long and complex history of the relationships between the United States and the nations of Latin America. Like its predecessor, this new edition is ideal for use as a core text for courses in American Foreign Relations and makes engaging supplementary reading for survey courses in U.S. as well as Latin American History.Kyle Longley specializes in U.S. foreign relations with an emphasis on Latin America. He received his doctorate in 1993 from the University of Kentucky, where he studies with George Herring. Dr. Longley has taught at Arizona State University for Fourteen years. Currently, he is a full professor and Snell Family Dean's Distinguished Professor. He has taught a variety of courses including U.S.-Latin American Relations, Modern Central America, Modern U.S. Foreign Relations, the American Experience in Vietnam, and the Modern South.
Dr. Longley has received a variety of awards and recognition including a Moody Fellowship from the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation and research grants from the Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman Libraries. His other awards include being appointed a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians and winning the Associated Students of Arizona State University Centennial Professor award for outstanding and the Zebulon Pearce Award for outstanding teacher in the Humanities at Arizona State University.
Dr. Longley has been active in several organizations including the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, and the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. He has also published extensively. His first book, The Sparrow and the Hawk: The United States and Costa Rica during the Rise of Jose Figueres (1997), won the A. B. Thomas Prize for outstanding book published in Latin American Studies from the South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies. In addition to In the Eagle's Shadow he has also completed other books including Senator Albert Gore, Sr.: Tennessee Maverick (2004), Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America's Fortieth President (editor and contributor, 2006), and Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam (2008). Currently, he is completing The Houses of the Purple Hearts: Small Town American in the Shadow of the Vietnam War and starting a project on policy prescriptions for the United States in Latin America with Admiral Jim Stavridis, U.S. Commander of the Southern Command.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780882952710 |
| ISBN 10 | 0882952714 |
| Title | In the Eagle's Shadow |
| Author | Kyle Longley |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Year published | 2009-05-19 |
| Number of pages | 378 |
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