TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaplan,Robert D.
TI  - Earning the Rockies: how geography shapes America's role in the world 
SN  - 9780399588211 (alk. paper)
AV  - E161.3 .K37 2017
U1  - 306.097309/048 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Kaplan, Robert D.,
KW  - Landscapes
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - History
KW  - National characteristics, American
KW  - Geography
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1980-2020
KW  - Territorial expansion
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index; Invocation -- Earning the Rockies -- A Continental Empire -- Notes on a Vertical Landscape -- Notes on a Horizontal Landscape -- Cathay -- Epilogue
N2  - "As a boy, Robert Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities that thrive on globalization, impoverished towns denuded by the loss of manufacturing--and paints a bracingly clear picture of America today. 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
ER  -