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 Format: Hardcover, 393 pages
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
ISBN: 0679451900
Release Date: Jan 8, 1998
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
American journalist Robert D. Kaplan has traveled the world during his career. Now, in his most recent book, An Empire Wilderness, he returns to his homeland. Tracing a path that begins in the heartland -- Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to be exact -- and winds all over the Americas, from the cattle ranches of the Dust Bowl to the forests of the Pacific Northwest, Kaplan examines a nation in transition, one fragmented by class and ethnicity that is at the same time building up new alliances within itself. All combined, Kaplan delivers a much more realistic state-of-the-union assessment than Washington ever delivers.
| | | | From The Publisher
Traveling, like Tocqueville and John Gunther before him, through a political and cultural landscape in transition, Kaplan reveals a nation shedding a familiar identity as it assumes a radically new one. An Empire Wilderness opens in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the first white settlers moved into Indian country and where Manifest Destiny was born. In a world whose future conflicts can barely be imagined, it is also the place where the army trains its men to fight the next war. From Fort Leavenworth, Kaplan travels west to the great cities of the heartland -- to St. Louis, once a glorious shipping center expected to outshine imperial Rome and now touted, with its desolate inner city and miles of suburban gated communities, as 'the most average American city.' Kaplan continues west to Omaha; down through California; north from Mexico, across Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas; up to Montana and Canada, and back through Oregon. He visits Mexican border settlements and dust-blown county sheriffs' offices, Indian reservations and nuclear bomb plants, cattle ranches in the Oklahoma Panhandle, glacier-mantled forests in the Pacific Northwest, swanky postsuburban sprawls and grim bus terminals, and comes, at last, to the great battlefield at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where an earlier generation of Americans gave their lives for their vision of an American future. But what, if anything, he asks, will today's Americans fight and die for? The new America he found is in the pages of this book. Kaplan gives a precise and chilling vision of how the most successful nation the world has ever known is entering the final, and highly uncertain, phase of its history.
| | | | Foreword
"To write about one's country is the most problematic form of autobiography." -- From the Introduction to An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future
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-- Joe, a book lover, September 9, 2002
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
The author of Balkan Ghosts, and the pre-eminent contemporary practitioner of gloom and doom journalism, surveys the local scene, finding terrible disparities in wealth, gated communities, and polluted megalopolisesIn the course of the travels through western North America that Robert Kaplan recounts in An Empire Wilderness, a woman asks him what the topic of his book is going to be. "I told her it was about whether or not many Americans would still be moved in fifty years when they heard John Philip Sousa music on Inauguration Day." It is already doubtful, of course, that many Americans are still moved by--or can even identify--Sousa marches on those few occasions when they are still played, which is why an inquiry into the status and future of American patriotism in a rapidly globalizing world is well worth conducting. And having witnessed and reported the breakup of states and rapid rearrangement of national loyalties in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and west Africa, Kaplan turns out to be especially suited for the job.
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
A tour de force. The finest foreign correspondent of his generation turns his eye and ear to his own country. —H.W. Brands
| |  | | | | Preface | | | Pt. I | Last Redoubt of the Nation-State | | | 1 | Fort Leavenworth | 3 | | Pt. II | The New Wilderness | | | 2 | Fort Leavenworth to St. Louis | 23 | | 3 | The Average American City | 28 | | 4 | The "American Bottoms" | 46 | | 5 | Omaha: Plugged In | 56 | | 6 | Against the Current | 67 | | Pt. III | In the Future Now | | | 7 | Like Teheran and Sao Paulo | 79 | | 8 | One of the World's Biggest Economies | 91 | | 9 | Low-End Cosmopolitanism | 103 | | Pt. IV | The Agent of History | | | 10 | History Moves North | 109 | | 11 | In Search of the Nonexistent | 121 | | 12 | Upheavals and Transformations | 131 | | 13 | Across the Great Wall of China | 138 | | Pt. V | Separate Nations | | | 14 | The First Oasis | 149 | | 15 | Individualists | 168 | | 16 | "Our Culture Is Getting Real Thin" | 178 | | 17 | Arizona: A Balkan Map? | 183 | | 18 | Hopi Silences and the Land of Awe | 191 | | 19 | Veterans Day | 201 | | 20 | Onstage in Santa Fe and Taos | 211 | | 21 | The Greyhound Underclass | 222 | | 22 | A Desert Culture | 230 | | 23 | The Dry-Land Sea | 242 | | Pt. VI | The New Empire | | | 24 | Imperial Outpost and the Small Town | 267 | | 25 | The New Localism | 281 | | 26 | An Empire Wilderness? | 296 | | 27 | Canada: The Wild Card | 309 | | 28 | Vancouver: Twenty-first-Century Patriotism | 315 | | 29 | Toward Cathay | 329 | | Pt. VII | The Meaning of Vicksburg | | | 30 | History in Three Dimensions | 341 | | Acknowledgments | | | Selected Bibliography | | | Index | |
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