{"product_id":"an-empire-wilderness-travels-into-americas-future-paperback","title":"An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America's Future - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert D. Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Full of surprises and unusual revelations . . . an informed and disturbing portrait of the new American badlands.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" Kaplan is] tireless, curious, and smart. . . . I cannot imagine anyone will concoct a more convincing scenario for the American future.\" --Thurston Clarke, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the same prescience and eye for telling detail that distinguished his bestselling \u003cb\u003eBalkan Ghosts\u003c\/b\u003e, Robert Kaplan now explores his native country, the United States of America. His starting point: the conviction that America is a country not in decline but in transition, slowly but inexorably shedding its identity as a monolithic nation-state and assuming a radically new one.\u003cbr\u003e Everywhere Kaplan travels--from St. Louis, Missouri, to Portland, Oregon, from the forty-ninth parallel to the banks of the Rio Grande--he finds an America ever more fragmented along lines of race, class, education, and geography. An America whose wealthy communities become wealthier and more fortress-like as they become more closely linked to the world's business capitals than to the desolate ghettoes next door. An America where the political boundaries between the states--and between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico--are becoming increasingly blurred, betokening a vast open zone for trade, commerce, and cultural interaction, the nexus of tomorrow's transnational world. Never nostalgic or falsely optimistic, bracingly unafraid of change and its consequences, Kaplan paints a startling portrait of post-Cold War America--a great nation entering the final, most uncertain phase of its history. Here is travel writing with the force of prophecy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Lively . . . Kaplan has a sharp eye for social truth, and his encounters with a chorus of eloquent citizens of the West keeps the narrative humming.\" --\u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull of surprises and unusual revelations . . . an informed and disturbing portrait of the new American badlands.--\"Chicago Tribune \u003cbr\u003e\"[Kaplan is] tireless, curious, and smart. . . . I cannot imagine anyone will concoct a more convincing scenario for the American future.\" --Thurston Clarke, \"The New York Times \u003cbr\u003eWith the same prescience and eye for telling detail that distinguished his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan now explores his native country, the United States of America. His starting point: the conviction that America is a country not in decline but in transition, slowly but inexorably shedding its identity as a monolithic nation-state and assuming a radically new one.\u003cbr\u003e Everywhere Kaplan travels--from St. Louis, Missouri, to Portland, Oregon, from the forty-ninth parallel to the banks of the Rio Grande--he finds an America ever more fragmented along lines of race, class, education, and geography. An America whose wealthy communities become wealthier and more fortress-like as they become more closely linked to the world's business capitals than to the desolate ghettoes next door. An America where the political boundaries between the states--and between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico--are becoming increasingly blurred, betokening a vast open zone for trade, commerce, and cultural interaction, the nexus of tomorrow's transnational world. Never nostalgic or falsely optimistic, bracingly unafraid of change and its consequences, Kaplan paints a startling portrait of post-Cold War America--a great nation entering the final, most uncertain phase of its history. Here is travel writing with the force of prophecy. \u003cbr\u003e\"Lively . . . Kaplan has a sharp eye for social truth, and his encounters with a chorus of eloquent citizens of the West keeps the narrative humming.\" --\"Outside\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert D. Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including \u003ci\u003eAdriatic, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Good American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Revenge of Geography, Asia's Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts.\u003c\/i\u003e He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. He was a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy's Executive Panel. \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e magazine twice named him one of the world's \"Top 100 Global Thinkers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52485683446067,"sku":"9780679776871","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/3gehAUvdL39780679776871.webp?v=1759809212","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/an-empire-wilderness-travels-into-americas-future-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}