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I cannot imagine anyone will concoct a more convincing scenario for the American future.\" --Thurston Clarke,   \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\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.\" --\u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \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                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46554557939873,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780679776871","price":28.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780679776871_5867cd99-6e23-4b4b-9544-cf4160bd08ed.jpg?v=1781772821","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/an-empire-wilderness-paperback-by-robert-d-kaplan-1","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}