Name: Earning the Rockies
ISBN: 9780399588211

Robert D. Kaplan

Robert D. Kaplan lays bare the roots of American greatness by examining the geography from which our power springs - showing how westward expansion shaped our national character, and how it should shape our foreign policy

How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World

Earning the Rockies

Andrew Marti

Kaplan argues that American geography is a gift that has shaped our success as a nation. Our navigable waterways, abundant and diagonal (rather than running north and south, as in most countries), and our huge stretches of open land provide a unique bounty of wealth. This wealth strengthens us internally. We have learned to convert this "landscape power into economic power." 

Yet these gifts come with a responsibility to lead. We have a unique responsibility to use these gifts to shape the world in a responsible way. Recently, we've failed this responsibility.

Earning the Rockies How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World

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