IN THE EAGLE'S SHADOW: THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA By LONGLEY, KYLE 340, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-968-9) MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, SUGGESTED READINGS, INDEX Retail Price: $21.95 Online Price:$17.56   (instructors only)

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 counterpolicies leaving them unable to realize important continuties in a multidimensional story. It is with the student reader in mind that Professor Kyle Longley and Harlan Davidson, Inc., proudly present In the Eagle's Shadow, 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. In order to help student readers contextulize the historical process, Professor Longley clearly lays out then consistently underscores the major themes in U.S.-Latin American relations-interdependence, the U.S. drive toward hemispheric hegemony and Latin America's various forms of resistance to it, and the rise of Latino Americans, peoples with a long and growing influence on U.S. culture and society, including the formation of foreign policy. Finally, by weaving the relevant interpretations of leading scholars directly into the narrative, Professor Longley has crafted a new kind of foreign relations textbook that will engage student readers even as it enables them to form meaningful perspectives on the long and ongoing relationships that shape the history as well as the daily lives of all peoples who call the Americas home. In the Eagle's Shadowis ideal for use 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.