Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world /
As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understan...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline, increasingly cosmopolitan cities that benefit from globalization, impoverished small towns abandoned by the same, and paints a bracingly clear portrait of America today, including the anger and alienation that is currently giving rise to Trump and Sanders candidacies. Kaplan lays bare the roots of American greatness, the fact that we are a nation, empire and continent all at once, and how westward expansion shaped our national character, and should shape our foreign policy. |
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| Physical Description: | 201 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780399588211 0399588213 |