A scholar of U.S. foreign relations in the twentieth century, Waldo H. Heinrichs is Dwight E. Stanford Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University. He earned both a bachelor’s degree (1949) and doctorate (1960) in history from Harvard University.
Books in order of publication:
| American Ambassador: Joseph C. Grew and the Development of the United States Diplomatic Tradition | 1979 |
| Uncertain Years | 1980 |
| Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry Into World War II | 1988 |
| Diplomacy and Force: America’s Road to War, 1931-1941 | 1996 |
| Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 | 2017 |
