LEADER 02445nim 2200469Ka 450 001 9910163273503321 005 20240912110838.6 010 $a1-68168-408-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000001046915 035 $a(BIP)060401229 035 $a(ODN)ODN0003116359 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001046915 100 $a20170124d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auruna---||||| 181 $cspw$2rdacontent 182 $cs$2rdamedia 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEarning the rockies $eHow geography shapes america's role in the world. /$fRobert D Kaplan 205 $aUnabridged. 210 $aPrince Frederick $cHighBridge Audio$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (6 audio files) $cdigital 300 $aUnabridged. 330 $aAs 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. 517 $aEarning the Rockies 606 $aNonfiction$2OverDrive 606 $aHistory$2OverDrive 606 $aPolitics$2OverDrive 606 $aTravel$2OverDrive 615 17$aNonfiction. 615 7$aHistory. 615 7$aPolitics. 615 7$aTravel. 676 $a306.0973 686 $aHIS036000$aPOL062000$aTRV025000$2bisacsh 700 $aKaplan$b Robert D$0115348 702 $aDufris$b William$4nrt 906 $aAUDIO 912 $a9910163273503321 996 $aEarning the Rockies$92892127 997 $aUNINA