TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rice,Donald Tunnicliff
TI  - Cast in deathless bronze: Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the origins of American empire 
SN  - 9781943665457
AV  - E714.6.R8 R53 2016
U1  - 973.8/9092 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Morgantown
PB  - West Virginia University Press
KW  - Rowan, Andrew Summers.
KW  - Rowan, Andrew Summers
KW  - Garc�ia I�niguez, Calixto,
KW  - Hubbard, Elbert,
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Officers
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - Message to Garcia (Hubbard, Elbert)
KW  - Intelligence officers
KW  - Spanish-American War, 1898
KW  - Secret service
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - General
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Territorial expansion
KW  - Travel
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1865-1921
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. "It is meritorious to be a boy at West Point" -- 2. Becoming an Intelligence Officer -- 3. "A Most Perilous Undertaking" -- 4. America Takes a Step towards Empire -- 5. The Creation of an American Myth -- 6. Exactly Where Are the Philippines? -- 7. A Glorious Undertaking -- 8. Captain Rowan in Command -- 9. An Idyllic Spot to Spend the War -- 10. Major Rowan in Love and War -- 11. The Complexities of Retirement -- 12. The Myth Lives On -- Epilogue
N2  - "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 Garc�ia, 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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