Title Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world / Robert D. Kaplan.

Publication Info.	New York : Random House, [2017]
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Edition	First edition.
Description	201 pages : illustrations, map ; 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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index.
Contents	Invocation -- Earning the Rockies -- A continental empire -- Notes on a vertical landscape -- Notes on a horizontal landscape -- Cathay -- Epilogue.
Subject	Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- -- Travel -- United States.
	Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- (OCoLC)fst00138494
	United States -- Geography.
	United States -- Description and travel.
	Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States.
	City and town life -- United States.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
	United States -- Territorial expansion.
	Imperialism -- History.
	National characteristics, American.
	United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy.
	City and town life. (OCoLC)fst00862081
	Diplomatic relations -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01910431
	Geography. (OCoLC)fst00940469
	Imperialism. (OCoLC)fst00968126
	Landscapes -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01735942
	National characteristics, American. (OCoLC)fst01033342
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Territorial expansion. (OCoLC)fst01355135
	Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	HISTORY / United States.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics.
	TRAVEL / United States.
Chronological Term	Since 1980
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9780399588211 (alkaline paper)
	0399588213 (alkaline paper)

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