Earning the Rockies How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World |
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Author:
| Kaplan, Robert D. |
Read by:
| Dufris, William |
ISBN: | 978-1-6651-4701-9 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2021 |
Publisher: | HighBridge Company
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Book Format: | CD-Audio |
List Price: | USD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father's evocative stories about traveling across America as a young man, travels in which he learned to understand the country 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. The history of westward expansion is examined here in a new light--not just a story of...
More DescriptionAs a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father's evocative stories about traveling across America as a young man, travels in which he learned to understand the country 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. The history of westward expansion is examined here in a new light--not just a story of genocide and individualism, but also of communalism and a respect for the limits of a water-starved terrain--to understand how settling the West shaped our national character, and how it should shape our foreign policy. In his clear-eyed and moving meditations on the American landscape, Kaplan lays bare the roots of American greatness--the fact that we are a nation, empire, and continent all at once--and how we must reexamine those roots, and understand our geography, in order to confront the challenging, anarchic world that Kaplan describes. Earning the Rockies is a short epic, a story both personal and global in scope.