{"product_id":"2940170214990","title":"Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World","description":"As 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 \u003ci\u003eEarning the Rockies\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eEarning the Rockies\u003c\/i\u003e is a short epic, a story both personal and global in scope.","brand":"HighBridge Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100625027312,"sku":"2940170214990","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170214990_p0.jpg?v=1763705475","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170214990","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}