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Cast in deathless bronze : Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the origins of American empire / Donald Tunnicliff Rice.
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Rice, Donald Tunnicliff
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2016.
Description
xiii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
E714.6.R8 R53 2016
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Intelligence officers
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United States
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Biography
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Spanish-American War, 1898
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Secret service
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United States
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United States
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Territorial expansion
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United States
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Foreign relations
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1865-1921
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United States
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Colonial question
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United States Army
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Officers
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Biography
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Rowan, Andrew Summers
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Rowan, Andrew Summers
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Travel
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Cuba
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García Iñiguez, Calixto 1839-1898
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Rowan, Andrew Summers
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Public opinion
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Hubbard, Elbert 1856-1915
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Message to Garcia
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Summary note
"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 García, 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-350) and index.
Contents
"It is meritorious to be a boy at West Point"
Becoming an intelligence officer
"A most perilous undertaking"
America takes a step towards empire
The creation of an American myth
Exactly where are the Philippines?
A glorious undertaking
Captain Rowan in command
An idyllic spot to spend the war
Major Rowan in love and war
The complexities of retirement
The myth lives on.
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ISBN
9781943665433 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
1943665435 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
9781943665426 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
1943665427 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016018218
OCLC
946905498
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