Robert D. Kaplanis the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, includingAdriatic,The Good American,The Revenge of Geography, Asia's Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupe Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.For three decades he reported on foreign affairs forThe Atlantic. Hewas amember of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy's Executive Panel.Foreign Policymagazine twice named him one of the world's"Top 100 Global Thinkers."
“There is more insight here into the Age of Trump than in bushels
of political-horse-race journalism. . . . Earning the Rockies is a
tonic, because it brings fundamentals back into view.”—The New York
Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“A sui generis writer . . . America’s East Coast establishment has
only one Robert Kaplan, someone as fluently knowledgeable about the
Balkans, Iraq, Central Asia and West Africa as he is about Ohio and
Wyoming.”—Financial Times
“In his long career as a foreign correspondent, Robert Kaplan has
pursued stories in places as remote as Yemen and Outer Mongolia. In
Earning the Rockies, he visits a place almost as remote to many
Americans: these United States. . . . The author’s point is a good
one: America is formed, in part, by a geographic setting that is
both sanctuary and watchtower.”—The Wall Street Journal
“A text both evocative and provocative for readers who like
to think … In his final sections, Kaplan discusses in
scholarly but accessible detail the significant role that America
has played and must play in this shuddering world.”—Kirkus
Reviews
“Earning the Rockies is a brilliant reminder of the impact of
America’s geography on its strategy. An essential complement to his
previous work on the subject of geostrategy, Kaplan’s latest
contribution should be required reading.”—Henry A. Kissinger
“Robert D. Kaplan uses America’s unique geography and frontier
experience to provide a lens-changing vision of America’s role in
the world, one that will capture your imagination. Unflinchingly
honest, this refreshing approach shows how ideas from outside
Washington, D.C., will balance America’s idealism and pragmatism in
dealing with a changed world. A jewel of a book, Earning the
Rockies lights the path ahead.”—Secretary of Defense James
Mattis
“Earning the Rockies is a thoughtful, engrossing, eloquent
reflection on the United States’ westward expansion to fill our
continent—and on the implications of the resulting national
character for the current debate about the proper role of America
in the world. Here’s another masterpiece by Robert D.
Kaplan.”—General (Ret.) David Petraeus
“Robert D. Kaplan has given us a great gift in this intelligent,
engaging, and memorable book about America at home and abroad.
Jefferson believed our national fate inextricably linked to the
West; Kaplan shows us how true that remains all these years
distant.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
“Any Robert D. Kaplan road trip is bound to be compelling,
but Earning the Rockies is all the more so for crossing
America. Like Kerouac and Tocqueville, Kaplan makes us see the
country in a wholly new way. This concise classic is highly
recommended.”—John Lewis Gaddis, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
of George F. Kennan: An American Life
“What a fine, stimulating, energizing, and thoroughly original book
. . . All diplomats and soldiers—indeed, all Americans with power
or the hope of power—should read Robert D. Kaplan generally, and
this slim volume particularly.”—Simon Winchester, New York Times
bestselling author of Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
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