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Earning the Rockies

How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
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Oct 23, 2018EmilyEm rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
At once memoir, travelogue and an overview of America’s foreign policy role, all viewed through a lens that focuses on America’s geography. As a person who grew up in the West and loves its social histories I found this look at Manifest Destiny intriguing. His profiles of environmentalists like Bernard DeVoto, Wallace Stegner and John Wesley Powell were familiar ground, which was great reading again. It was last month’s [September 2018] New York Times/PBS NewsHour ‘Now Read This’ selection. Other readers had mixed reviews.