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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Invocation
  • Earning the Rockies
  • A continental empire
  • Notes on a vertical landscape
  • Notes on a horizontal landscape
  • Cathay
  • Epilogue.