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Cast in Deathless Bronze - Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire (Hardcover)
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Cast in Deathless Bronze - Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire (Hardcover)
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In 1898, when war with Spain seemed inevitable, Andrew Summers
Rowan, an American army lieutenant from West Virginia, was sent on
a secret mission to Cuba. He was to meet with General Calixto
Garcia, a leader of the Cuban rebels, in order to gather
information for a U.S. invasion. Months later, after the war was
fought and won, a flamboyant entrepreneur named Elbert Hubbard
wrote an account of Rowan's mission entitled ""A Message to
Garcia."" It sold millions of copies, and Rowan became the
equivalent of a modern-day rock star. His fame resulted in hundreds
of magazine and newspaper articles, radio shows, and two movies.
Even today he is held up as an exemplar of bravery and loyalty. The
problem is that nothing Hubbard wrote about Rowan was true. Donald
Tunnicliff Rice reveals the facts behind the story of ""A Message
to Garcia"" while using Rowan's biography as a window into the
history of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine War, and the
Moro Rebellion. The result is a compellingly written narrative
containing many details never before published in any form, and
also an accessible perspective on American diplomatic and military
history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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