EARNING THE ROCKIES

An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine Americas role in the worldfrom the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and Balkan GhostsAs a boy, Robert D. 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. There was a specific phrase from Kaplans childhood that captured this perspective: A westward traveler must earn th e Rockies by dr...[Read more]