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As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father's evocative reports about traveling across America as a man, travels in which he learned to understand the united states from a ground-level point of view. In Generating the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country voyage to recapture an understanding 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 simply a account of genocide and individualism, but also of communalism and a value for the boundaries of a water-starved surfaces - to understand how settling the Western world shaped our countrywide character, and exactly how it should shape our foreign plan. In his clear-eyed and moving meditations on the American landscape, Kaplan lays bare the root base of American greatness - the fact that we are a region, empire, and continent all at once - and how we must reexamine those root base, and understand our geography, in order to confront the challenging, anarchic world that Kaplan describes. Generating the Rockies is a brief epic, a tale both personal and global in opportunity.
