Earning the Rockies
How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
New York : Random House, [2017]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 201 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"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.
Subjects:
Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- -- Travel -- United States.
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.
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.
ISBN:
9780399588211 (alk. paper)
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SOCIAL SCI Kap | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
SOCIAL SCI Kap | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index.