{"product_id":"an-empire-wilderness-travels-into-america-s-future-isbn-9780679776871","title":"An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future","description":"\"Full of surprises and unusual revelations . . . an informed and disturbing portrait of the new American badlands.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\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","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48534235939045,"sku":"NP9780679776871","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679776871.jpg?v=1773240567","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/an-empire-wilderness-travels-into-america-s-future-isbn-9780679776871","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}