An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future
by Kaplan, Robert D
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0679451900
- ISBN 13
- 9780679451907
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1998 1st ed. 393pp. hardback sm 4to: Very Good+ in a Fine dj [small light colored coffee splash type spot on fore edge; else a nice crisp copy] A review copy with publisher’s promotional material laid in. Jacket praise from President Bill Clinton, anthropologist Wade Davis, et al., for this "true original" by the author of "Balkan Ghosts."
Synopsis
Robert D. Kaplan is chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm, and the author of fourteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate; Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power; Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History; and Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos . He has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic for more than a quarter-century. In 2011 and 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan among the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.” From 2009 to 2011, he served under Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as a member of the Defense Policy Board. Since 2008, he has been a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis.
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- Auldfarran Books, IOBA (US)
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- 18259
- Title
- An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future
- Author
- Kaplan, Robert D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1998 1st ed.
- ISBN 10
- 0679451900
- ISBN 13
- 9780679451907
- Publisher
- New York: Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1998
- Keywords
- AMERICAN TRAVEL WEST WESTERN SOCIAL CONDITIONS FUTURIST OUTLOOK UNITED STATES REPORTAGE REVIEW COPY
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Travel;
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