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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 22 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by William Dufris. |
| Summary |
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 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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
United States -- Geography.
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United States -- Description and travel.
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Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- -- Travel -- United States.
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Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States.
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City and town life -- United States.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
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United States -- Territorial expansion.
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Imperialism -- History.
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National characteristics, American.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy.
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| Added Author |
Dufris, William, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781681684086 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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168168408X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11804510 |
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