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Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Random House, [2017]
Physical Description
201 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"--Provided by publisher.
Contents
- Invocation
- Earning the Rockies
- A Continental Empire
- Notes on a Vertical Landscape
- Notes on a Horizontal Landscape
- Cathay
- Epilogue.
Subjects
- Landscapes > Social aspects > United States.
- City and town life > United States.
- Imperialism > History.
- National characteristics, American.
- United States > Geography.
- United States > Description and travel.
- United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020
- United States > Territorial expansion.
- United States > Foreign relations > Philosophy.
- Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- > Travel-United States.